Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Hebrews 3:6

“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.”

Hebrews 3:6 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Hebrews 3:6, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Hebrews 3. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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

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

6 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.

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

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

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they sha…
  • 1 Corinthians 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • Hebrews 10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
  • 1 Peter 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • Hebrews 6:11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
  • Hebrews 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  • Hebrews 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
  • Hebrews 10:23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
  • Revelation 3:11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
  • Colossians 1:23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; wher…
  • Hebrews 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
  • Hebrews 1:2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
  • Hebrews 4:14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

More to meet God in Hebrews

Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:6Hebrews 13:8Hebrews 4:16Hebrews 12:1Hebrews 13:5Hebrews 10:23Hebrews 12:2Hebrews 9:14Hebrews 10:22Hebrews 6:2Hebrews 1:2Hebrews 1:14Hebrews 3:1

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.