{"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/wnt/hebrews/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:22:37.063Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":3,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":19},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him,  just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as  he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to  the End the boldness and the  hope which we boast of as ours."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us,  |To-day, if you hear His voice,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the  provocation on the day of the  temptation in the Desert,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest| --"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"On the contrary  encourage  one another, day after day,  so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of  sin."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"seeing that the warning still comes to us, |To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation.|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For who were they  that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not  the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose  dead bodies fell in the Desert?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 3 (WNT)","markdown":"[Hebrews 3](https://primebible.com/wnt/hebrews/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/hebrews/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}