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Hebrews 3 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | Therefore, 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, Jesus; | Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, | Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. | |
| 2 | He was faithful to Him who appointed Him [Apostle and High Priest], as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. | who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. | He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. | |
| 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. | For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. | Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. | |
| 4 | For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. | (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) | For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. | |
| 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]; | Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, | “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. | |
| 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]. | but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. | But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. | |
| 7 | Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, | Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, | So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, | |
| 8 | DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS [your fathers did] IN THE REBELLION [of Israel at Meribah], ON THE DAY OF TESTING IN THE WILDERNESS, | do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, | do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, | |
| 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]. | where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. | where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. | |
| 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]’; | Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ | That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ | |
| 11 | SO I SWORE [an oath] IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [the promised land].’” | As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” | So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” | |
| 12 | Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God. | Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. | See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. | |
| 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]. | But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. | But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. | |
| 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, | For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. | We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. | |
| 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].” | As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” | As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” | |
| 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? | For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? | Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? | |
| 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? | And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? | And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? | |
| 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]? | And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? | And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? | |
| 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. | So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. | So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. | |
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