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Hebrews 3 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Jesus Our High Priest

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Therefore, [fn]holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider the Apostle and High Priest whom we confessed [as ours when we accepted Him as Savior], namely, [fn]Jesus;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:2 - He was faithful to Him who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:3 - Yet Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater glory and honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:4 - For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:5 - Now Moses was faithful in [the administration of] all God’s house, [but only] as a ministering servant, [his ministry serving] as a testimony of the things which were to be spoken afterward [the revelation to come in Christ];

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:6 - but Christ is faithful as a Son over His [Father’s] house. And we are His house if we hold fast our confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].
(Psa 95:7–11 )

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Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

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DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS [your fathers did] IN THE REBELLION [of Israel at [fn]Meribah],

ON THE DAY OF TESTING IN THE WILDERNESS,

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WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED ME BY TESTING [My forbearance and tolerance],

AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS

[And found I stood their test].

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“THEREFORE I WAS ANGERED WITH THIS GENERATION,

AND I SAID, ‘THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART,

AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS [nor become progressively better and more intimately acquainted with them]’;

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SO I SWORE [an oath] IN MY WRATH,

‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [the promised land].’”

The Peril of Unbelief

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:12 - Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving [fn]heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:13 - But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:14 - For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all that the Messiah has for us], if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:15 - while it is said,

“TODAY [while there is still opportunity] IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEART, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME [in the rebellion in the desert at Meribah].”

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For who were they who heard and yet provoked Him [with rebellious acts]? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:17 - And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:18 - And to whom did He swear [an oath] that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [those who would not listen to His word]?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:19 - So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest—the promised land] because of unbelief and an unwillingness to trust in God.
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AMP Footnotes
See note 2:11.
In the Greek text the name of Jesus is placed last for emphasis.
See Ex 17:1-7.
“Heart” includes the entire human personality--mind, will, and emotions. The core of one’s being where there is no pretense.
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