Hebrews 3Hebrews3

Berean Standard BibleKing James Version

1. Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

2. 1BSBTherefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.KJVKJV: Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
3. 2BSBHe was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.KJVKJV: Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
4. 3BSBFor Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.KJVKJV: For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
5. 4BSBAnd every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.KJVKJV: For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
6. 5BSBNow Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.KJVKJV: And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
7. 6BSBBut Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.KJVKJV: But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

8. Do Not Harden Your Hearts

   (Psalm 95:1–11)

9. 7BSBTherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,KJVKJV: Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
10. 8BSBdo not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,KJVKJV: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
11. 9BSBwhere your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.KJVKJV: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
12. 10BSBTherefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’KJVKJV: Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
13. 11BSBSo I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”KJVKJV: So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

14. The Peril of Unbelief

15. 12BSBSee to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.KJVKJV: Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
16. 13BSBBut exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.KJVKJV: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
17. 14BSBWe have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.KJVKJV: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
18. 15BSBAs it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”KJVKJV: While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
19. 16BSBFor who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?KJVKJV: For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
20. 17BSBAnd with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?KJVKJV: But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
21. 18BSBAnd to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?KJVKJV: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
22. 19BSBSo we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.KJVKJV: So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.