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1 WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; | |
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. | |
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. | |
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. | |
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; | |
6 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 unto the end. | |
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, | |
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: | |
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. | |
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. | |
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) | |
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. | |
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. | |
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; | |
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. | |
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. | |
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? | |
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? | |
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. | |
