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Hebrews 3 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
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  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
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1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even ]Jesus; 2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. 3 For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, 9 Wherewith your fathers tempted [me ]by proving [me], And saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do alway err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; 11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: 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: 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: 15 while it is said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Cross references (19)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Philippians 3:14; 2 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 4:14–15; 1 Peter 2:9; Ephesians 4:1
  2. 2 Numbers 12:7; 1 Timothy 3:15; John 6:38–40; Ephesians 2:22; Hebrews 3:5–6
  3. 3 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:5–7; Zechariah 6:12–13; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 1:2–4
  4. 4 Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 3:3
  5. 5 Numbers 12:7; Hebrews 3:2; Exodus 14:31; Psalm 105:26; Acts 28:23
  6. 6 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 10:35; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Corinthians 6:19
  7. 7 Psalm 95:7–11; Hebrews 3:15; Isaiah 55:3; Revelation 3:20; Hebrews 4:7
  8. 8 Proverbs 28:14; Exodus 17:7; Matthew 13:15; Zechariah 7:11–12; Jeremiah 7:26
  9. 9 Acts 7:36; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 8:4; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 4:3
  10. 10 Psalm 95:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12; Psalm 78:8; Psalm 67:2; Jeremiah 4:22
  11. 11 Deuteronomy 1:34–35; Hebrews 4:3; Numbers 14:20–23; Hebrews 4:5; Numbers 32:10–13
  12. 12 Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 17:9; Jeremiah 18:12; 1 Corinthians 10:12
  13. 13 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Hebrews 10:24–25; 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; Acts 11:23
  14. 14 Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 6:11; 1 Peter 4:13; Hebrews 12:10; Ephesians 3:6
  15. 15 Hebrews 3:7–8; Psalm 95:7; Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:29
  16. 16 Numbers 14:2; Numbers 14:30; Numbers 26:65; Deuteronomy 1:38; Psalm 78:17
  17. 17 Numbers 14:29; Numbers 26:64–65; Numbers 14:22; Numbers 14:32–33; Jude 5
  18. 18 Hebrews 4:6; Deuteronomy 1:34–35; Numbers 14:30; Psalm 106:24–26; Numbers 20:12
  19. 19 Jude 5; John 3:36; Mark 16:16; John 3:18; 1 John 5:10

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Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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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).

  1. Commentary 3:7 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews (Homily VI)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 3:2 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XIV–XVIII)

    … 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.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 3:5 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VI)

    … 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.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 3:3 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXVII)

    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)

  5. Quotes verse 3:13 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XV)

    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)