1 So, my brothers and sisters who live for God and who share in this heavenly calling, we need to think carefully about Jesus—the one we say is sent by God, and is the High Priest. 2 He was faithful to God in the work he was chosen to do, just like Moses was faithful to God in God's house. 3 But Jesus deserves much greater glory than Moses, in the same way that the builder of a house deserves more credit than the house. 4 Every house has its builder; God is the builder of everything. 5 As a servant, Moses was faithful in God's house. He provided evidence of what would be announced later. 6 But Christ is a son, in charge of God's house. And we are God's house as long as we hold on with confidence to the hope we boast we believe in. 7 This is why the Holy Spirit says, “If you hear what God is saying to you today, 8 don't have a hard-hearted attitude like the time you rebelled against him, when you tested him in the wilderness. 9 Your fathers put me through it, trying my patience, and they saw the evidence I gave them for forty years. 10 That generation made me angry and so I said, ‘They're always mistaken in what they think, and they don't know me or what I'm doing.’ 11 So in my frustration I vowed, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” 12 Brothers and sisters, make sure that none of you has an evil mindset that's given up trusting in the God of life. 13 Encourage each other every day while you still have “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and become hard-hearted. 14 For we are partners with Christ as long as we hold on to our confidence in God from beginning to end. 15 As Scripture says, “If you hear what God is saying to you today, don't have a hard-hearted attitude like the time you rebelled against him.” 16 Who was it that rebelled against God, even though they heard what he said? Wasn't it all those who were led out of Egypt by Moses? 17 Who was God upset with for forty years? Wasn't it those who sinned, those who were buried in the desert? 18 Who was God speaking of when he vowed they should not enter into his rest? Wasn't it those who disobeyed him? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter because they didn't trust him.
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Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Philippians 3:14; 2 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 4:14–15; 1 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 4:1
- 2 Numbers 12:7; 1 Timothy 3:15; John 6:38–40; Ephesians 2:22; Hebrews 3:5–6
- 3 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:5–7; Zechariah 6:12–13; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 1:2–4
- 4 Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 3:3
- 5 Numbers 12:7; Hebrews 3:2; Exodus 14:31; Psalm 105:26; Acts 28:23
- 6 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 10:35; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Corinthians 6:19
- 7 Psalm 95:7–11; Hebrews 3:15; Isaiah 55:3; Revelation 3:20; Hebrews 4:7
- 8 Proverbs 28:14; Exodus 17:7; Matthew 13:15; Zechariah 7:11–12; Jeremiah 7:26
- 9 Acts 7:36; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 8:4; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 4:3
- 10 Psalm 95:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12; Psalm 78:8; Psalm 67:2; Jeremiah 4:22
- 11 Deuteronomy 1:34–35; Hebrews 4:3; Numbers 14:20–23; Hebrews 4:5; Numbers 32:10–13
- 12 Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 17:9; Jeremiah 18:12; 1 Corinthians 10:12
- 13 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Hebrews 10:24–25; 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; Acts 11:23
- 14 Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 6:11; 1 Peter 4:13; Hebrews 12:10; Ephesians 3:6
- 15 Hebrews 3:7–8; Psalm 95:7; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:29
- 16 Numbers 14:2; Numbers 14:30; Numbers 26:65; Deuteronomy 1:38; Psalm 78:17
- 17 Numbers 14:29; Numbers 26:64–65; Numbers 14:22; Numbers 14:32–33; Jude 5
- 18 Hebrews 4:6; Deuteronomy 1:34–35; Numbers 14:30; Psalm 106:24–26; Numbers 20:12
- 19 Jude 5; John 3:36; Mark 16:16; John 3:18; 1 John 5:10
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that "We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end" ( c. iii. ver. 6 ); next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
… righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil." But bringing an accusation against himself, he said, "No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day." Moses was called faithful in all God's house; and through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt with plagues and tortures.
… Moses himself, being a man of God, was indeed given as a god before Pharaoh; but he is not properly termed Lord, nor is called God by the prophets, but is spoken of by the Spirit as "Moses, the faithful minister and servant of God," which also he was.
For neither when John saith, "He is mightier than I," doth he say it as comparing them; nor Paul, when remembering Moses he writes, "For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses," doth he so write by way of comparison; and He Himself too, in saying, "Behold, a greater than Solomon is here," speaks not as making …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
According as Paul says in another place, And exhort each other daily, while it is called to-day; meaning, "continually." For as we may not speak of the "beginning of the days" of Christ, so neither suffer thou that any should ever speak of the end of His kingdom.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)