3: 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus;
3: 2 who was faithful to him that 34made him, as also was Moses in 35all 36his house.
34Or, appointed
35So ℵCA 1739 33 81 0243 and most, arm vg. But p13,46vidB copsa,bo,fay almost alone omit all
36That is, God’s house. (and in vss. 5, 6) See Nu 12:7.


3: 3 For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much more as he that 37built the house hath more honor than the house.
37Or, established (three times in vss. 3, 4)

3: 4 for every house is built by some one; but he that built all things is God.
3: 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;
3: 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope38.
38So p13,46B copsa alone. But ℵCA 1739 33 81 0243 and most, copbo arm vg add firm unto the end. (See vs. 14)

3: 7 Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, 39Today if ye shall hear his voice,
39Ps 95:7ff.

3: 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
3: 9 40Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
40Or, Wherewith

3: 10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
3: 11 41As I sware in my wrath, 42They shall not enter into my rest.
41Or, So
42Gk. If they shall enter into my rest.


3: 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
3: 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
3: 14 for we are become partakers 43of 44Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
43Or, of the or, with Compare ch. 1:9; 3:6.
44Lit. Anointed (and so everywhere)


3: 15 while it is said, 45Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
45Ps 95:7f.

3: 16 For who, when they heard, did provoke? no, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?
3: 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose 46bodies fell in the wilderness?
46Gk. limbs

3: 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?
3: 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.