Hebrews 3

Jesus Is Greater Than Moses

¹And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and^a are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger^b and High Priest. ²For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire^c house.

³But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself. ⁴For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.

⁵Moses was certainly faithful in God’s house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later. ⁶But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.^d

⁷That is why the Holy Spirit says,

“Today when you hear his voice,

⁸don’t harden your hearts

as Israel did when they rebelled,

when they tested me in the wilderness.

⁹There your ancestors tested and tried my patience,

even though they saw my miracles for forty years.

¹⁰So I was angry with them, and I said,

‘Their hearts always turn away from me.

They refuse to do what I tell them.’

¹¹So in my anger I took an oath:

‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”^e

¹²Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters.^f Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. ¹³You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. ¹⁴For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. ¹⁵Remember what it says:

“Today when you hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts

as Israel did when they rebelled.”^g

¹⁶And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed him? ¹⁹So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest.