| 1 ¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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| 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed1 him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
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| 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.
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| 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
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| 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;
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| 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.
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| 7 ¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
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| 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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| 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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| 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
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| 11 So I sware in my wrath, They2 shall not enter into my rest.)
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| 12 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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| 13 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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| 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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| 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
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| 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
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| 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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| 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
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| 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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