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Hebrews 3

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1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus, CCC

2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house. CCC · Fathers

3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house. CCC

4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. CCC

5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, Fathers

6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. CCC

7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

8 don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

15 while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

19 We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
  2. Read the Catechism and Fathers
    • CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
    • “… righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil." But bringing an accusation against himself, he said, "No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day." Moses was called faithful in all God's house;”

      Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  3. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
  4. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
  5. Read the Fathers
    • “And what wonder is it if those in Christ who were entrusted with such a duty by God, appointed those [ministers] before mentioned, when the blessed Moses also, "a faithful servant in all his house,”

      Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XLIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  6. Read the Catechism
    • CCC 959 “In the one family of God. "For if we continue to love one another and to join in praising the Most Holy…”
    • CCC 2778 “This power of the Spirit who introduces us to the Lord's Prayer is expressed in the liturgies of East and of West…”