Outline
I. Prologue: The Superiority of God's New Revelation (1:1-4)
1. Scriptural proof of his superiority (1:5-14)
2. Exhortation not to ignore the revelation of God in his Son (2:1-4)
3. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels (2:5-9)
4. Having been made like us, Jesus was enabled to save us (2:10-18)
1. Demonstration of Christ's superiority (3:1-6)
5. Christ's superior priestly order (ch. 7)
A. A New Sanctuary and a New Covenant (ch. 8)
2. Faith and its many outstanding examples (ch. 11)
V. Conclusion (ch. 13)
Hebrews 3 NLT
1 And so, dear brothers and sisters who
belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully
about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest.
2 For he was faithful to God, who
appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s
entire house.
3 But Jesus deserves far more glory
than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the
house itself.
4 For every house has a builder, but
the one who built everything is God.
5 Moses was certainly faithful in God’s
house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal
later.
6 But Christ, as the Son, is in charge
of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and
remain confident in our hope in Christ.
7 That is why the Holy Spirit says,
“Today when you hear his voice,
8 don’t harden your hearts as Israel did
when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness.
9 There your ancestors tested and tried
my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
10 So I was angry with them, and I said,
‘Their hearts always turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell
them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They
will never enter my place of rest.’”
12 Be careful then, dear brothers and
sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning
you away from the living God.
13 You must warn each other every day,
while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and
hardened against God.
14 For if we are faithful to the end,
trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all
that belongs to Christ.
15 Remember what it says: “Today when
you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they
rebelled.”
16 And who was it who rebelled against
God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt?
17 And who made God angry for forty
years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the
wilderness?
18 And to whom was God speaking when he
took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it the people who
disobeyed him?
19 So we see that
because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest.
Hebrews 4 NLT
1 God’s promise of entering his rest
still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to
experience it.
2 For this good news—that God has
prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did
them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to
God.
3 For only we who believe can enter his
rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will
never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he
made the world.
4 We know it is ready because of the
place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day
God rested from all his work.”
5 But in the other passage God said,
“They will never enter my place of rest.”
6 So God’s rest is there for people to
enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they
disobeyed God.
7 So God set another time for entering
his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later
in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your
hearts.”
8 Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving
them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to
come.
9 So there is a special rest still
waiting for the people of God.
10 For all who have entered into God’s
rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the
world.
11 So let us do our best to enter that
rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
12 For the word of God is alive and
powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul
and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and
desires.
13 Nothing in all creation is hidden
from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to
whom we are accountable.
