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Hebrews 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe,

2 faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful,

3 but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day.

4 Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God.

5 Moses did a good job in God's house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come.

6 Christ as Son is in charge of the house.

7 That's why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen;

8 don't turn a deaf ear as in "the bitter uprising," that time of wilderness testing!

9 Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience.

10 And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, "They'll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road."

11 Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest."

12 So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.

13 For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes.

14 If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul.

15 These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.

16 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren't they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt?

17 And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn't it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness?

18 And when he swore that they'd never get where they were going, wasn't he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear?

19 They never got there because they never listened, never believed.

New American Standard Bible NAS

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

2 He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.

3 For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

5 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;

6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house -whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

8 DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

9 WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.

10 "THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS ';

11 AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.' "

12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

15 while it is said, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME."

16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

19 So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.