Jesus Our High Priest
1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;
2He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.
3For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.
4For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
5Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;
6but Christ
was faithful as a Son over His housewhose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
7Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
T
ODAY IF YOU HEAR H
IS VOICE,
8D
O NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED M
E,
A
S IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
9W
HERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, A
ND SAW M
Y WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.
10T
HEREFORE I
WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION,
A
ND SAID, T
HEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART,
A
ND THEY DID NOT KNOW M
Y WAYS;
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S I
SWORE IN M
Y WRATH,
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HEY SHALL NOT ENTER M
Y REST.
The Peril of Unbelief
12Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
13But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is
still called Today, so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,
15while it is said,
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ODAY IF YOU HEAR H
IS VOICE,
D
O NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS,
AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED M
E.
16For who provoked
Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt
led by Moses?
17And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
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