Hebrews 3 (Today's New International Version)

Jesus Greater Than Moses

1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,¹ who share in the heavenly calling,² fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge³ as our apostle and high priest.⁴ 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.⁵ 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,⁶ just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.⁷ 5 "Moses was faithful as a servant⁸ in all God's house,"^a9 bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son¹⁰ over God's house. And we are his house,¹¹ if indeed we hold firmly¹² to our confidence and the hope¹³ in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:¹⁴ "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts¹⁵ as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.¹⁶ 10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' 11 So I declared on oath in my anger,¹⁷ 'They shall never enter my rest.' ¹⁸"^b19 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.²⁰ 13 But encourage one another daily,²¹ as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.²² 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold firmly²³ till the end our original conviction.²⁴ 15 As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."^c25 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?²⁶ 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?²⁷ 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest²⁸ if not to those who disobeyed ?²⁹ 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.³⁰