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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hebrews 3:6 in context
Hebrews 3:3–9
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For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
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For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
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Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
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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.
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Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you will hear his voice,
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don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
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where your fathers tested me and tried me,
and saw my deeds for forty years.
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- “Christ” means “Anointed One”.
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