Hebrews 3:9 — Meaning and Application

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“When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.”

Hebrews 3:9

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Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

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.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in {their} heart; and they have not known my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) {They...: Gr. If they shall enter}

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Hebrews 3:1

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

Hebrews 3:2

"Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses {was faithful} in all his house. {appointed: Gr. made}"

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."

Hebrews 3:4

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

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;"

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 the hope firm unto the end."

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