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For this reason, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and Chief Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,
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being faithful to Him who appointed Him, as also Moses [was] in all His house.
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For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds it has more honor than the house.
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For every house is built by someone, and He who built all things [is] God,
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and Moses [was] indeed steadfast in all His house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken—
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but Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope to the end.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
(Psalm 95:1–11)
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For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—
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you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
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in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years;
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for this reason I was grieved with that generation and said, They always go astray in [their] heart, and these have not known My ways;
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so I swore in My anger, They will [not] enter into My rest.”
The Peril of Unbelief
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Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
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but exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,
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for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end,
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as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.”
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For who [were those], having heard, [that] provoked, but not all those having come out of Egypt through Moses?
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But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
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And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe?
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And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
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