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3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as aHe who built the house has more honor than the house.  
4 For every house is built by someone, but aHe who built all things is God.  
5 aAnd Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as ba servant, cfor a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,  
6 but Christ as aa Son over His own house, bwhose house we are cif we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope1 firm to the end.  

Be Faithful

7 Therefore, as athe Holy Spirit says:
b“Today, if you will hear His voice, 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 3:5

faithful in all his house—that is in all GOD'S house (Hebrews 3:4).

servant—not here the Greek for "slave," but "a ministering attendant"; marking the high office of Moses towards God, though inferior to Christ, a kind of steward.

for a testimony of, etc.—in order that he might in his typical institutions give "testimony" to Israel "of the things" of the Gospel "which were to be spoken afterwards" by Christ (Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 9:8, Hebrews 9:23; Hebrews 10:1).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 3:5:

Malachi 3:1
Matthew 21:37
Luke 20:13
Acts 3:22-26
1 Corinthians 4:2
1 Corinthians 10:2
1 Timothy 3:15
Titus 1:7
Hebrews 2:17
Hebrews 3:6
Hebrews 13:20
Revelation 3:7

 

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