Hebrews 3:4

4 After all, every house has a builder, but the builder of everything is God.

Hebrews 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:4

For every house is built by some man
Or by some one; for a house does not build itself: this is true of houses properly taken, or improperly, as nations, tribes, families, and kindred, of the whole church in general, of particular congregations, and of individual believers; the greatest saints, even apostles and prophets, such an one as Moses, are built by and upon Christ; their persons are built on him; they receive all their gifts for edification from him, and their success is owing to him; though they are to be esteemed of in their proper places: the apostle's design is to bring down the high esteem the Jews had of Moses, that they might rightly value Christ.

But he that built all things is God;
Christ has built all things, and therefore he is God, and must be infinitely above Moses; for this is not to be understood of God and of the creation of the world, and of all things in it by him; but of Christ, and of his building the church, and of his ordering and managing of that, and all affairs relating to it; such as the constitution of it, settling the worship of God, and the ordinances in it, the redemption and salvation of the members of it, and its rule and government; all which prove him to be God, and above Moses.

Hebrews 3:4 In-Context

2 Jesus is faithful to God, who appointed him, in the same way that Moses was faithful when he served in God's house.

3 Jesus deserves more praise than Moses in the same way that the builder of a house is praised more than the house.

4 After all, every house has a builder, but the builder of everything is God.

5 Moses was a faithful servant in God's household. He told [the people] what God would say in the future.

6 But Christ is a faithful son in charge of God's household. We are his household if we continue to have courage and to be proud of the confidence we have.