Hebrews 3 (ESV)

19 verses · English Standard Version · Essentially literal

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Hebrews Chapter 3 contains 19 verses and is presented here in the English Standard Version (ESV), which uses a essentially literal approach. Read the full text below, compare with other translations, or navigate to any of the 13 chapters in Hebrews.

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1Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

2who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

3For 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.

4(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

5Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

6but 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.

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,

8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.

10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’

11As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

12Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

15As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?

17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

18And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

19So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

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What is Hebrews 3 in the ESV?

Hebrews 3 in the English Standard Version (ESV) contains 19 verses. The ESV uses a essentially literal approach, first published in 2001 (rev. 2016).

How does the ESV translate Hebrews 3 differently?

The English Standard Version uses essentially literal, balancing accuracy with modern readability. Compare this with the NIV (dynamic equivalence) version of Hebrews 3 for a different perspective.

How many verses are in Hebrews 3 (ESV)?

Hebrews Chapter 3 contains 19 verses in the English Standard Version. The book of Hebrews has 13 chapters total.

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