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Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
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who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.
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For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
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For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
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Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
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but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
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Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
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don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
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where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
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Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
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As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
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Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
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but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
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while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
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For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
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With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.
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