Hebrews 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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- He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.
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- 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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- For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
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- Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
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- 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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- So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
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- do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
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- where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
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- 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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- So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'" [1]
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- See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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- 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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- We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
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- As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." [2]
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- Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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- 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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- And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed [3] ?
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- So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
- [11] Psalm 95:7-11
- [15] Psalm 95:7,8
- [18] Or disbelieved