Apologetics Bible

Hebrews 3:1

Greek

Ὅθεν, ἀδελφοὶ ἅγιοι, κλήσεως ἐπουρανίου μέτοχοι, κατανοήσατε τὸν ἀπόστολον καὶ ἀρχιερέα τῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν ⸀Ἰησοῦν,

Othen, adelphoi agioi, kleseos epoyranioy metochoi, katanoesate ton apostolon kai archierea tes omologias emon Iesoyn,

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

AKJV: Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

ASV: Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, evenJesus;

YLT: Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:2

Greek

πιστὸν ὄντα τῷ ποιήσαντι αὐτὸν ὡς καὶ Μωϋσῆς ⸀ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ.

piston onta to poiesanti ayton os kai Moyses en to oiko aytoy.

KJV: Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

AKJV: Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

ASV: who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

YLT: being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:3

Greek

πλείονος γὰρ ⸂οὗτος δόξης⸃ παρὰ Μωϋσῆν ἠξίωται καθʼ ὅσον πλείονα τιμὴν ἔχει τοῦ οἴκου ὁ κατασκευάσας αὐτόν·

pleionos gar oytos doxes para Moysen exiotai kath oson pleiona timen echei toy oikoy o kataskeyasas ayton·

KJV: 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.

AKJV: For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

ASV: For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.

YLT: for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:4

Greek

πᾶς γὰρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος, ὁ ⸀δὲ πάντα κατασκευάσας θεός.

pas gar oikos kataskeyazetai ypo tinos, o de panta kataskeyasas theos.

KJV: For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

AKJV: For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.

ASV: For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

YLT: for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:5

Greek

καὶ Μωϋσῆς μὲν πιστὸς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ ὡς θεράπων εἰς μαρτύριον τῶν λαληθησομένων,

kai Moyses men pistos en olo to oiko aytoy os therapon eis martyrion ton lalethesomenon,

KJV: And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

AKJV: And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

ASV: And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;

YLT: and Moses indeed was stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:6

Greek

Χριστὸς δὲ ὡς υἱὸς ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ· ⸀ὅς οἶκός ἐσμεν ἡμεῖς, ⸀ἐὰν τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὸ καύχημα τῆς ⸀ἐλπίδος κατάσχωμεν.

Christos de os yios epi ton oikon aytoy· os oikos esmen emeis, ean ten parresian kai to kaychema tes elpidos kataschomen.

KJV: 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.

AKJV: 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 to the end.

ASV: but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.

YLT: and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

Exposition: Hebrews 3:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: '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.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:7

Greek

Διό, καθὼς λέγει τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε,

Dio, kathos legei to pneyma to agion· Semeron ean tes phones aytoy akoysete,

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

AKJV: Why (as the Holy Ghost says, To day if you will hear his voice,

ASV: Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

YLT: Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

Exposition: Hebrews 3:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:8

Greek

μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ, κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ,

me sklerynete tas kardias ymon os en to parapikrasmo, kata ten emeran toy peirasmoy en te eremo,

KJV: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

AKJV: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

ASV: Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,

YLT: ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:9

Greek

οὗ ⸀ἐπείρασαν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ⸂ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ⸃ καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου

oy epeirasan oi pateres ymon en dokimasia kai eidon ta erga moy

KJV: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

AKJV: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

ASV: Where your fathers triedmeby proving me,

YLT: in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

Exposition: Hebrews 3:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:10

Greek

τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη· διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ⸀ταύτῃ καὶ εἶπον· Ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου·

tesserakonta ete· dio prosochthisa te genea tayte kai eipon· Aei planontai te kardia· aytoi de oyk egnosan tas odoys moy·

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

AKJV: Why I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

ASV: Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,

YLT: wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

Exposition: Hebrews 3:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:11

Greek

ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου· Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.

os omosa en te orge moy· Ei eiseleysontai eis ten katapaysin moy.

KJV: So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

AKJV: So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

ASV: As I sware in my wrath,

YLT: so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')

Exposition: Hebrews 3:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:12

Greek

βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ζῶντος,

blepete, adelphoi, mepote estai en tini ymon kardia ponera apistias en to apostenai apo theoy zontos,

KJV: Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

AKJV: Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

ASV: Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:

YLT: See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:13

Greek

ἀλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ἄχρις οὗ τὸ Σήμερον καλεῖται, ἵνα μὴ σκληρυνθῇ ⸂τις ἐξ ὑμῶν⸃ ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἁμαρτίας·

alla parakaleite eaytoys kath ekasten emeran, achris oy to Semeron kaleitai, ina me sklerynthe tis ex ymon apate tes amartias·

KJV: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

AKJV: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

ASV: but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:

YLT: but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:14

Greek

μέτοχοι γὰρ ⸂τοῦ Χριστοῦ γεγόναμεν⸃, ἐάνπερ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ὑποστάσεως μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατάσχωμεν.

metochoi gar toy Christoy gegonamen, eanper ten archen tes ypostaseos mechri teloys bebaian kataschomen.

KJV: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

AKJV: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;

ASV: for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:

YLT: for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

Exposition: Hebrews 3:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:15

Greek

ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαι· Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, Μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ.

en to legesthai· Semeron ean tes phones aytoy akoysete, Me sklerynete tas kardias ymon os en to parapikrasmo.

KJV: While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

AKJV: While it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

ASV: while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

YLT: in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

Exposition: Hebrews 3:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:16

Greek

τίνες γὰρ ἀκούσαντες παρεπίκραναν; ἀλλʼ οὐ πάντες οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐξ Αἰγύπτου διὰ Μωϋσέως;

tines gar akoysantes parepikranan; all oy pantes oi exelthontes ex Aigyptoy dia Moyseos;

KJV: For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

AKJV: For some, when they had heard, did provoke: however, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

ASV: For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

YLT: for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

Exposition: Hebrews 3:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:17

Greek

τίσιν δὲ προσώχθισεν τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη; οὐχὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτήσασιν, ὧν τὰ κῶλα ἔπεσεν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ;

tisin de prosochthisen tesserakonta ete; oychi tois amartesasin, on ta kola epesen en te eremo;

KJV: But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

AKJV: But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

ASV: And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

YLT: but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

Exposition: Hebrews 3:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:18

Greek

τίσιν δὲ ὤμοσεν μὴ εἰσελεύσεσθαι εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ εἰ μὴ τοῖς ἀπειθήσασιν;

tisin de omosen me eiseleysesthai eis ten katapaysin aytoy ei me tois apeithesasin;

KJV: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

AKJV: And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

ASV: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

YLT: and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

Exposition: Hebrews 3:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Hebrews 3:19

Greek

καὶ βλέπομεν ὅτι οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν εἰσελθεῖν διʼ ἀπιστίαν.

kai blepomen oti oyk edynethesan eiselthein di apistian.

KJV: So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

AKJV: So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

ASV: And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

YLT: and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Exposition: Hebrews 3:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Koine Greek Grammar: A close Koine Greek reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.