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1 So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe,
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1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
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2 faithful in everything God gave him to do. Moses was also faithful,
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2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.
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3 but Jesus gets far more honor. A builder is more valuable than a building any day.
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3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
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4 Every house has a builder, but the Builder behind them all is God.
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4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
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5 Moses did a good job in God's house, but it was all servant work, getting things ready for what was to come.
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5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
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6 Christ as Son is in charge of the house.
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6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
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7 That's why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen;
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7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
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8 don't turn a deaf ear as in "the bitter uprising," that time of wilderness testing!
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8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
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9 Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience.
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9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
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10 And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, "They'll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road."
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10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
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11 Exasperated, I vowed, "They'll never get where they're going, never be able to sit down and rest."
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11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' "
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12 So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.
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12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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13 For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes.
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13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
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14 If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul.
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14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
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15 These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.
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15 As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."
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16 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren't they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt?
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16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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17 And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn't it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness?
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17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
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18 And when he swore that they'd never get where they were going, wasn't he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear?
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18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed ?
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19 They never got there because they never listened, never believed.
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19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
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