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Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice,
Hebrews 3:7 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
  • KJV Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
  • BSB Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
  • NASB Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,
  • NLT That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear his voice,

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Quick answer

The Holy Spirit warns through Scripture: 'Today, if you hear his voice.' God's call demands a present, responsive hearing.

Overview

Quoting Psalm 95:7, the author attributes the Scripture directly to the Holy Spirit, affirming its divine authorship. The word 'today' presses the urgency of responding to God now. This opens an extended exhortation drawn from Israel's wilderness failure, applied to the readers' own situation.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • Ps 95:7–11for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
  • Heb 3:15while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
  • Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • Rev 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
  • Heb 4:7he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
  • John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • Ps 81:13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
  • Heb 3:13but 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.
  • 2 Cor 6:1–2Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Ps 81:11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
  • Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
  • John 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
  • Isa 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
  • John 5:25Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
  • John 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
  • Eccl 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
  • 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
  • 2 Sam 23:2“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
  • Heb 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
  • Prov 27:1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
  • Matt 22:43He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
  • Acts 28:25When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
  • Mark 12:36For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
  • Jas 4:13–15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
  • Acts 1:16“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

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Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

How Hebrews 3:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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