Hebrews 3:1-6 calls believers to fix their attention on Jesus. Moses was a faithful servant in God’s house, but Jesus is greater because He is the Son over God’s house. And belonging to that house is tied to holding firmly to our confidence and hope.

The writer begins with “therefore,” linking this paragraph to what has just been said. Because Jesus is the merciful and faithful high priest who helps His people, the readers are now called to think carefully and steadily about Him. This is more than a passing glance. It is a summons to give sustained attention to the One they confess.

He addresses them warmly as “holy brothers and sisters” and as those who share in a heavenly calling. So the warning in this section is not cold or abstract. It is pastoral. He speaks to them as a covenant people who have received great privileges, and for that very reason they must listen carefully.

Jesus is called both “the apostle” and “the high priest” of our confession. Here, “apostle” means one sent from God. Jesus is God’s representative to His people. “High priest” means He represents His people before God. These titles belong together: Jesus comes from God to reveal Him, and He goes before God on behalf of His people.

Verse 2 introduces the comparison with Moses. Both Jesus and Moses were faithful to the One who appointed them. That point matters. The writer does not diminish Moses in order to exalt Christ. Moses is honored as faithful. The argument is not that Moses failed while Jesus succeeded, but that although both were faithful, Jesus holds a far higher place.

That higher place is explained through the house imagery that shapes the whole paragraph. Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves more honor than the house itself. The comparison is somewhat compressed, but the point is clear. Greater honor belongs to the one who establishes and orders the house than to one who belongs within it. Verse 4 gives the theological foundation: every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. This keeps the analogy from becoming merely human and reminds the readers that God stands behind the whole reality under discussion.

Verse 5 returns to Moses and gives him real honor. He was faithful in all God’s house as a servant. The word for “servant” here is honorable, not degrading. Moses was a trusted attendant in God’s household. Even so, he was still a servant within the house, not the Son over it. His ministry also pointed forward. His faithfulness testified to things that would be spoken later. In other words, Moses’ role looked beyond itself to the fuller revelation that would come in Christ.

Verse 6 states the contrast plainly: Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. The difference between being “in” the house and being “over” the house is crucial. Moses served within God’s people. Christ rules over God’s people as the Son. This is why Jesus is greater than Moses—not because Moses was of little value, but because Christ’s person and position are far higher.

Then the writer applies the image directly: “We are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.” Here, “house” refers mainly to God’s covenant people, though the image also carries household and sanctuary overtones. The statement is corporate: together, the readers are identified as God’s house under Christ.

The condition at the end of verse 6 must not be weakened. The text does not present perseverance as optional. Continued identification with Christ’s house is tied to holding firmly to confidence and hope. This condition also prepares for the warning that begins in verse 7 and continues through 4:13. So this verse should not be reduced to empty rhetoric or treated as merely a reference to a past profession. The point is that real participation in Christ’s house is bound up with enduring confidence and hope in what God has promised.

The passage therefore calls the church to center itself on Jesus, not even on the greatest servant God has given. Faithful leaders have an honored place, but they remain servants within the house. The Son alone is over it. And those who belong to Him must continue holding fast to their confession and hope.

Key Truths: - Jesus must be given careful, sustained attention because He is the merciful and faithful high priest of His people. - Moses was truly faithful, but Jesus is greater because Moses served in God’s house while Christ is the Son over God’s house. - Moses’ ministry pointed forward to the fuller revelation that would come in Christ. - God’s house in this passage refers chiefly to His covenant people under Christ’s authority. - Belonging to Christ’s house is linked to persevering in confidence and hope, which gives real force to the warning that follows.