| Chapter 3 |
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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, |
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who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his 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 every house is built by some one; but he who has built 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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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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Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will 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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where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works 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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so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. |
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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 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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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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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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(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 wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases 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 we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;) |