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Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. |
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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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For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. |
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And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. |
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Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. |
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. |
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Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, |
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do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, |
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where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. |
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Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ |
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So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” |
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See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. |
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But exhort 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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We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. |
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As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.” |
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For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? |
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And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
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And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? |
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So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. |
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