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Hebrews 3

1 He requireth them to be obedient unto the word of Christ, 3 Who is more worthy then Moses. 12 The punishment of such as will harden their hearts, and not believe, that they might have eternal rest.
1.Therefore, holie brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, aconsider the Apostle and high Priest of our bprofession Christ Jesus:
2.Who was faithful to him that hath appointed chim, even as *Moses was in all his house.
3.For this man is counted worthy of more glory then Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, dhath more honour then the house.
4.For every house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is eGod.
5.Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a witness of the things which should be spoken after.
6.But Christ is as the Son, over his own house, whose fhouse we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end.
7.Wherefore, as the holie Ghost saith, *To day if ye shall hear his voice,
8.Harden not your hearts, as in the gprovocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wilderness,
9.Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.
10.Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They ere ever in their heart, neither have they known my ways.
11.Therefore I swear in my wrath, hIf they shall enter into my irest.
12.Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there be in any of you an evil heart, and unfaithful, to depart away from the living God.
13.But exhort one another daily, while it is called kTo day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14.For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keep sure unto the lend the ^beginning, wherewith we are upholden,
15.So long as it is said, To day if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16.For some when they heard, provoked mhim to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17.But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned, *whose ^carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18.And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them, that obeyed not?
19.So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Notes

1-a.
Take heed to his words and receive him.
1-b.
Of that doctrine which we believe, and ought to confess.
2-*.
Nomb. 12.7.
2-c.
To be the ambassador and high Priest.
3-d.
Moses was but part of the house, that is, of the Church whereof the pastors are the lively stones, but Christ builded it, and layed the stones: therefore he deserves more praise.
4-e.
That is Christ: for Christ is the foundation, and head of his Church: he is our brother, and Lord: he is the Son of God, and very God, working all things by his own power.
6-f.
For in obeying the Son we are made the house of God.
7-*.
Psal. 95.7, Chap. 4.7.
8-g.
As when ye provoked God’s anger in Massa and Meriba, Exod. 17.7.
11-h.
Meaning by this oath that they should not enter.
11-i.
As disobeying God, they in old time were debarred from the quiet- ness of the land of Chanaan: so they which do not obey Christ, shall not enter into the heavenly rest.
13-k.
Which is all the time wherein God does call us: while he therefore speaks, let us hear.
14-^.
Or, foundation of our assurance.
14-l.
Which is by faith to embrace, and hold fast the true doctrine of Jesus Christ.
16-m.
To wit, the Lord.
17-N.
om. 14.37.
17-^.
Or, bodies and members.