| Chapter 3 |
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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; |
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Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. |
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For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house, hath more honor than the house. |
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For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God. |
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And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterwards to be spoken. |
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But Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. |
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Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith, 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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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. |
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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. |
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So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) |
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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. |
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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. |
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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end; |
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While it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. |
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For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. |
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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? |
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And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? |
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So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. |