MSB Audio · Hebrews 3
Majority Standard Bible
1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus Christ, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
4 And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to the end our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
8 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
15 As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
16 For some heard and rebelled, but not all those Moses led out of Egypt.
17 And with whom was God 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 never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
KJV
1 ¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.
3 For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.
5 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 ¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had 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 believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)
Let Christ, the excellent teacher of the New Testament, be heard.
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, which are called together with you by the heavenly calling, take heed to the apostle and high priest, whom we confess, Christ JEsu,
2 Who is faithful to him that made him (as also Moses) in all his house.
3 And this man is worthy of more honour than Moses: for he that prepareth the house hath more honour in it than the house.
4 For every house is prepared by one: but he that prepareth all things is God.
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of that which should be spoken;
6 But Christ as a son over his house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glory of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, To day, if ye shall hear his voice,
8 Then harden not your hearts, as was done in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tried me, they tested me, and saw my works forty years;
10 Therefore was I indignant against this generation, and said: Their hearts do always err, but they knew not my ways,
11 That I also sware in mine anger, that they should not come into my rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, lest any of you have an evil and unbelieving heart, which depart from the living God,
13 But exhort yourselves every day, as long as it is called this day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if by any other means we hold fast the things which we have begun unto the end,
15 As long as it is said: Today, if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as was done in bitterness.
16 For some of them, when they heard, did provoke to bitterness, but not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But over whom was he indignant forty years? Is it not so, that over them which sinned their bodies perished in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not come to his rest, but to the unbelievers?
19 And we see that they cannot enter in because of unbelief.
1545 Luther's English Bible (LED)
Machine-translated from Luther's final 1545 German Bible
The LED is an English rendering of Martin Luther's final 1545 German Bible. According to BackToLuther, it was produced by using the DeepL Translator on Luther's German text, then processed, polished, formatted, and hyperlinked for reading, while preserving chapter headings and other notations from orthodox German Lutheran Bibles.
Source attribution: BackToLuther, “Luther's 1545 Bible - in English by… DeepL Translator (The LED Bible)”.
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