1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heauenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus: 2 Who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him, euen as Moses was in al his house. 3 For this man is counted worthy of more glory then Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, hath more honour then the house. 4 For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God. 5 Now Moses verely was faithfull in all his house, as a seruant, for a witnesse of the thinges which should be spoken after. 6 But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende. 7 Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes, 9 Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long. 10 Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayde, They erre euer in their heart, neither haue they knowen my wayes. 11 Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. 12 Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God. 13 But exhort one another dayly, while it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes of sinne. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden, 15 So long as it is sayd, To day if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation. 16 For some when they heard, prouoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whome was he displeased fourtie yeeres? Was hee not displeased with them that sinned, whose carkeises fell in the wildernes? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but vnto them that obeyed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeliefe.
Hebrews 3 Geneva Bible (1599)
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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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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)