| 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 appointed him, as also Moses was
faithful in all his house. |
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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 always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. |
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| 11: So I sware in my wrath, They 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. |
