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| 3:1 |
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
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| 3:2 |
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.
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| 3:3 |
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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| 3:4 |
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
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| 3:5 |
Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
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| 3:6 |
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
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| 3:7 |
So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
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| 3:8 |
do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
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| 3:9 |
where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
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| 3:10 |
That is why 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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| 3:11 |
'So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.' "
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| 3:12 |
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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| 3:13 |
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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| 3:14 |
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
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| 3:15 |
As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."
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| 3:16 |
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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| 3:17 |
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
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| 3:18 |
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
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| 3:19 |
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
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