the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Hebrews 3:4
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Every house is built by someone, but God built everything.
Every housse is prepared of some man. But he that ordeyned all thinges is god.
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
Every house is built by someone, but the builder of everything is God himself.
For every house is built by someone; but he that built all things is God.
For every house is built by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
Now every house is built by some one: but he that built all things is God.
For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.
For ech hous is maad of sum man; he that made alle thingis of nouyt is God.
For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.
And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
Of course, every house is built by someone, and God is really the one who built everything.
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.
For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.
After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.Ephesians 2:10; 3:9; Hebrews 1:2;">[xr]
For every house by some man is builded; but He who built all [fn] is Aloha.
For every house is built by some man; but he who buildeth all things is God.
For euery house is builded by some man, but hee that built all things is God.
For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.
Every house is built by someone. And God is the One Who has built everything.
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.
For every house is built by some man; but he who builds all things is God.
For, every house, is prepared by someone, - but, he that hath prepared all things, is, God.
For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.
For euery house is buylded of some man: But he that buylded all thynges, is God.
Every house, of course, is built by someone—and God is the one who has built all things.
Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God.
For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God.
for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,
For euery house is prepared of some ma: but he that ordeyned all thinges, is God.
no house is without a builder; now he that built the whole house of Israel is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
The trainer can make more, and the one who made everything is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
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but: Hebrews 3:3, Hebrews 1:2, Esther 2:10, Esther 3:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Psalms 102:25 - General Zechariah 6:12 - he shall build Matthew 16:18 - I will John 1:3 - General Acts 17:24 - that made 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's building Ephesians 2:21 - all Ephesians 3:9 - created Colossians 1:16 - by him were Hebrews 1:8 - O God Hebrews 11:10 - whose
Cross-References
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
Now therefore thus says the LORD, 'You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'" So Eli'jah went.
And they said to him, "There came a man to meet us, and said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but shall surely die.'"
and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, --is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? --therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'"
And Eli'sha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover'; but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die."
He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."
to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For every house is built by some man,.... Or by some one; for a house does not build itself: this is true of houses properly taken, or improperly, as nations, tribes, families, and kindred, of the whole church in general, of particular congregations, and of individual believers; the greatest saints, even apostles and prophets, such an one as Moses, are built by and upon Christ; their persons are built on him; they receive all their gifts for edification from him, and their success is owing to him; though they are to be esteemed of in their proper places: the apostle's design is to bring down the high esteem the Jews had of Moses, that they might rightly value Christ.
But he that built all things is God; Christ has built all things, and therefore he is God, and must be infinitely above Moses; for this is not to be understood of God and of the creation of the world, and of all things in it by him; but of Christ, and of his building the church, and of his ordering and managing of that, and all affairs relating to it; such as the constitution of it, settling the worship of God, and the ordinances in it, the redemption and salvation of the members of it, and its rule and government; all which prove him to be God, and above Moses.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For every house is builded by some man - The words in this verse are plain, and the sentiment in it clear. The only difficulty is in seeing the connection, and in understanding how it is intended to bear on what precedes, or on what follows. It is clear that every house must have a builder, and equally clear that God is the Creator of all things. But what is the meaning of this passage in this connection? What is its bearing on the argument? If the verse was entirely omitted, and the fifth verse read in connection with the third, there would be apparently nothing wanting to complete the sense of the writer, or to finish the comparison which he had commenced. Various ways have been adopted to explain the difficulty. Perhaps the following observations may remove it, and express the true sense:
(1) Every family must have a founder; every dispensation an author; every house a builder. There must be someone, therefore, over all dispensations - the old and the new - the Jewish and the Christian.
(2) Paul “assumes” that the Lord Jesus was divine. He had demonstrated this in Hebrews 1:1-14; and he argues as if this were so, without now stopping to prove it, or even to affirm it expressly.
(3) God must be over “all things.” He is Creator of all, and he must, therefore, be over all. As the Lord Jesus, therefore, is divine, he must be over the Jewish dispensation as well as the Christian - or he must, as God, have been at the head of that - or over his own family or household.
(4) As such, he must have a glory and honor which could not belong to Moses. He, in his divine character, was the Author of both the Jewish and the Christian dispensations, and he must, therefore, have a rank far superior to that of Moses - which was the point which the apostle designed to illustrate. The meaning of the whole may be thus expressed. “The Lord Jesus is worthy of more honor than Moses. He is so, as the maker of a house deserves more honor than the house. He is divine. In the beginning he laid the foundation of the earth, and was the agent in the creation of all things; Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 1:10. He presides, therefore, over everything; and was over the Jewish and the Christian dispensations - for there must have been someone over them, or the author of them, as really as it must be true that every house is built by some person. Being, therefore, over all things, and at the head of all dispensations, he must be more exalted than Moses.” This seems to me to be the argument - an argument which is based on the supposition that he is at the head of all things, and that he was the agent in the creation of all worlds. This view will make all consistent. The Lord Jesus will be seen to have a claim to a far higher honor than Moses, and Moses will be seen to have derived his honor, as a servant of the Mediator, in the economy which he had appointed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 3:4. For every house is builded by some man] The literal sense is plain enough: "Every structure plainly implies an, architect, and an end for which it was formed. The architect may be employed by him for whose use the house is intended; but the efficient cause of the erection is that which is here to he regarded." The word house, here, is still taken in a metaphorical sense as above, it signifies family or Church. Now the general meaning of the words, taken in this sense, is: "Every family has an author, and a head or governor. Man may found families, civil and religious communities, and be the head of these; but God alone is the Head, Author, and Governor, of all the families of the earth; he is the Governor of the universe. But the apostle has a more restricted meaning in the words τα παντα, all these things; and as he has been treating of the Jewish and Christian Churches, so he appears to have them in view here. Who could found the Jewish and Christian Church but God? Who could support, govern, influence, and defend them, but himself? Communities or societies, whether religious or civil, may be founded by man; but God alone can build his own Church. Now as all these things could be builded only by God, so he must be God who has built all these things. But as Jesus is the Founder of the Church, and the Head of it, the word GOD seems here to be applied to him; and several eminent scholars and critics bring this very text as a proof of the supreme Deity of Christ: and the apostle's argument seems to require this; for, as he is proving that Christ is preferred before Moses because he built this house, which Moses could not do, where he to be understood as intimating that this house was built by another, viz. the Father, his whole argument would fall to the ground; and for all this, Moses might be equal, yea, superior to Christ. On this ground Dr. Owen properly concludes: "This then is that which the apostle intends to declare; namely, the ground and reason whence it is that the house was or could be, in that glorious manner, built by Christ, even because he is GOD, and so able to effect it; and by this effect of his power, he is manifested so to be."
