{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/erv/hebrews/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T06:17:05.269Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":19},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do alway err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"while it is said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 3 (ERV)","markdown":"[Hebrews 3](https://primebible.com/erv/hebrews/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/hebrews/3 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}