ClericFaithful perseverance

Hebrews 3 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Hebrews 1–13 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 3

The faithful Son

Verse 3:1

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus,

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Verse 3:2

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

who is faithful to the One who appointed Him, as Moses also was in His house.

Textual & Reception Notes

Appointed renders poieō in this vocational context; made is its more general lexical sense. Text [G]: In His house lacks the all that appears explicitly at 3:5.

Text [G]: NA28 reads ἐν [ὅλῳ] τῷ οἴκῳ in brackets (SBLGNT omits); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "in all His house".[G]

Verse 3:3

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For He has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the one who constructs a house has greater honor than the house.

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Verse 3:4

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For every house is constructed by someone, but the One who constructed all things is God.

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Verse 3:5

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as an attendant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken,

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Verse 3:6

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

but Christ as a Son over His house. We are that house if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G, A]: The accessed text has nominative hos, not the genitive hou (whose) reported for the compared editions. We are that house makes the house relation explicit without substituting whose. The added firm until the end phrase is absent here; compare the distinct statement at 3:14.

Text [G]: NA28 reads οὗ … ἐάνπερ (SBLGNT ὅς … ἐάν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "whose house we are, if indeed we hold fast".

Hear His voice today

Verse 3:7

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice,

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Verse 3:8

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

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

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Verse 3:9

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

where your fathers tested Me with a trial and saw My works

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Me is supplied as the contextual object of tested; the actual Greek has tested … with a trial. Forty years begins source verse 3:10 and is not moved into 3:9.

Verse 3:10

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

for forty years. Therefore I was indignant with this generation and said, ‘They always wander in their heart, and they did not know My ways,’

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Verse 3:11

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

as I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall certainly not enter My rest.’”

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The Greek oath begins literally if they shall enter. The Hebrew-style oath idiom has the force of a strong denial, represented by shall certainly not.

Verse 3:12

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Watch out, brothers, lest there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

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Verse 3:13

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceit of sin.

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Verse 3:14

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For we have become partakers of Christ if indeed we hold firm the beginning of our confidence until the end,

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Hypostasis is confidence in this exhortation; the same word’s being sense at 1:3 is not forced into this different context.

Verse 3:15

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

while it is said, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the provocation.”

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Verse 3:16

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For who, having heard, provoked Him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?

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The accessed punctuation makes this a question about who provoked, answered by those who came out through Moses; it is not translated as some but not all.

Verse 3:17

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

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

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Verse 3:18

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, except those who disobeyed?

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Verse 3:19

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

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