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Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.

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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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He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

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

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Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

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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 every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

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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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“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”a bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.

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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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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

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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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Warning Against Unbelief

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

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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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do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,

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

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where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.

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

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That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’

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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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So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”b

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

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See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

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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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But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

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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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We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

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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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As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”c

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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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Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

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

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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 to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?

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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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So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

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

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