AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Hebrews 3 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Jesus Our High Priest

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:1 -

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;

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.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:4 - For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
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];
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 )
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:7 -

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:8 -

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,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:9 -

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

AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS

[And found I stood their test].

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:10 -

“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]’;

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:11 -

SO I SWORE [an oath] IN MY WRATH,

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

The Peril of Unbelief

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.
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].
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,
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].”

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:16 -

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?

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?
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]?
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.
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.
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Hebrews Chapter 3 — Additional Translations: