Hebrews 3:7

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, ¹ 

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ² 

Hebrews 12:12

12:12 Therefore, strengthen ³  your listless hands and your weak knees, ⁴ 

Hebrews 10:5

10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

Hebrews 12:28

12:28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

Hebrews 13:12

13:12 Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

Hebrews 3:10

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ⁵  and they have not known my ways.’

Hebrews 11:16

11:16 But as it is, ⁶  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 6:1

6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond ⁷  the elementary ⁸  instructions about Christ ⁹  and move on ¹⁰  to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

Hebrews 11:12

11:12 So in fact children ¹¹  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ¹²  on the seashore. ¹³ 

¹ sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

² tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

³ tn Or “straighten.”

⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 35:3. Strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees refers to the readers’ need for renewed resolve and fresh strength in their struggles (cf. Heb 10:36-39; 12:1-3).

⁵ tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”

⁷ tn Grk “now.”

⁹ tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.

¹⁰ tn Or “basic.”

¹¹ tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”

¹² tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”

¹¹ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

¹² tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

¹³ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).