Hebrews 3

Hebrews 3:1

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Wherefore, O ye Christian Jews, who are partakers of this heavenly calling, and brethren by your holy profession, consider and set before your eyes Jesus Christ, your blessed Saviour; who, in respect of the Gospel, is our great and prime Apostle, that brings us the glad tidings of salvation; and, in respect to the Law, is our High Priest, who hath offered up a perfect sacrifice for mankind;

Hebrews 3:2

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

Who was faithful to God his Father, in all things that were enjoined him to be done; even as (and much more, than ever) Moses was in the Israelitish Church; which was as the great family of God upon earth.

Hebrews 3:3

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

Ye have a high opinion of Moses; but know ye, that there is no comparison to be admitted betwixt him and Christ: for Christ is accounted worthy of so much more honour than Moses, by how much the builder and master of the house is worthy of more honour than the house which he hath built or any parcel thereof: now Christ is the Maker and Owner of this great house of his Church, and Moses is a part of this house of God as being a member of his Church; and therefore is worthy of much more honour than Moses.

Hebrews 3:4

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

The material houses, wherein we dwell, are built by the hand of some man; but Christ, who is the Builder of this great house of the Church, yea of the whole world, is God, and therefore infinitely more excellent than any creature whatsoever.

Hebrews 3:5

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

And Moses was faithful in the administration of this whole Church or house of God, as a servant; in delivering unto the people all that part of God’s will, which he would have then to be declared unto them, and which afterwards was to be more clearly set forth;

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ as a Son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of he hope firm unto the end.

But Christ is a faithful Governor, as the Son of God, and therefore as the true Lord and Owner of this house; which house or Church of his we are, if, as we have received the Christian faith and profession, so we do stedfastly hold on the resolute maintenance of the same faith, which only is able to give us confidence, and cause of rejoicing in the assured hope and expectation of our glory to come. III. 8, 9, 11. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. See Psalm xcv. verses 8, 9, 10, 11.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Take heed, brethren, lest, after this holy profession made by you, there be found in any of you an evil and unbelieving heart, to fall away and depart from the colours of the living God, to take part with infidelity.

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

But exhort and stir up one another daily, while God holds forth this happy opportunity unto you; lest, as it fell out with our forefathers in the wilderness, so it should betide unto you, that any of you should have his heart hardened, and turned back towards the spiritual Egypt, through the deceitful suggestions of sin.

Hebrews 3:14

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

For we are already made partakers of Christ, in our holy profession, in his word and sacraments; and shall be fully and perfectly possessed of him, if we go on, according to our good beginning, and stedfastly hold that faith, which is only able to give us confidence and assurance, unto the end.

Hebrews 3:16

For some, when they had heard, did proroke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

For not all your forefathers, that were brought by the hand of Moses out of Egypt, did provoke God to anger, by tempting of him; but some, and those indeed not a few, when they heard his words, yet went on to tempt and offend him.