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Jesus Our Apostle and High Priest

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

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Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers,a you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

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who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.

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who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’sb house.

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For *he* has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

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For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses — as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

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For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.

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(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

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And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

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Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

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but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

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but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.c

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Do Not Harden Your Hearts

Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

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A Rest for the People of God

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,

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harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,

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where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.

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where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.

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Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;

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Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’

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so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

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As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

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The Dangers of Unbelief

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from [the] living God.

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Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

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But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end;

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For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

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in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

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As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

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(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but [was it] not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

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For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?

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And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

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And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

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And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

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So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

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