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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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The Son Was Faithful

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ 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 was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful 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 this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor 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 someone, but He who 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 servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

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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 a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]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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Be Faithful

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you 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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Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial 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 tested Me, tried 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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Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their 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,
‘They shall not enter 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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Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing 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 [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through 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 have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast 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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while it is said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

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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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Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led 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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Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses 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 did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

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

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So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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