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Chapter 3 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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: |
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| 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, They shall not enter into my rest.) |
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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. |
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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? |
| 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. |
