Hebrews tells readers to consider Jesus and then compares him to Moses in God’s house. It says Moses was faithful as a servant, but Christ is faithful as a Son over the house (Hebrews 3:1–6). The comparison highlights the greater honor given to the Son.
Hebrews 3:1–4 urges the audience, described as God-set-apart siblings sharing a heavenly call, to focus their attention on Jesus. Jesus is named as the sent representative (“Apostle”) and the High Priest tied to their public commitment. These verses pick up the “therefore” from the earlier argument about the Son who became fully human and helps those he calls siblings (Hebrews 2:17). Hebrews now turns from describing Jesus to directly urging the community to “consider” him.
Hebrews 3:1–4 shifts from describing Jesus to directly telling the community to pay close attention to him. The writer addresses them as “holy” siblings who share a “heavenly calling,” and ties Jesus to their public commitment (“our confession”).
A good comparison lets each passage speak in its own setting before drawing a theological conclusion. That keeps application from flattening the text.
Start with Hebrews 3:1-6, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
2who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.
3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built the house has more honor than the house.
4For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
5Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
6but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.