Chapter Summary
Read Hebrews Chapter 3 in full above. This chapter is part of the book of Hebrews and continues the narrative, teachings, or poetry found throughout this biblical text.
Hebrews Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of Hebrews from the Holy Bible
Verses
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
Hebrews 3:2
who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
Hebrews 3:3
For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
Hebrews 3:4
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
Hebrews 3:5
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8
don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Hebrews 3:9
where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’
Hebrews 3:11
as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
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while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
Hebrews 3:16
For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
Hebrews 3:17
With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
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What is Hebrews Chapter 3 about?
Hebrews Chapter 3 is part of the book of Hebrews in the General Epistles. This chapter contains 19 verses. Read the full text above to study its message in context with the surrounding chapters.
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