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1 So all of you holy brothers and sisters, who were called by God, think about Jesus, who was sent to us and is the high priest of our faith.
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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 Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was in God's family.
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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 Jesus has more honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
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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 is built by someone, but the builder of everything is God himself.
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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 was faithful in God's family as a servant, and he told what God would say in the future.
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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 But Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. And we are God's house if we keep on being very sure about our great hope.
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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 So it is as the Holy Spirit says: "Today listen to what he says.
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7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
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8 Do not be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God, when you tested God in the desert.
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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 There your ancestors tried me and tested me and saw the things I did for forty years.
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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 I was angry with them. I said, 'They are not loyal to me and have not understood my ways.'
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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 I was angry and made a promise, 'They will never enter my 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 brothers and sisters, be careful that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that will turn you away 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 But encourage each other every day while it is "today." Help each other so none of you will become hardened because sin has tricked you.
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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 We all share in Christ if we keep till the end the sure faith we had in the beginning.
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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 This is what the Scripture says: "Today listen to what he says. Do not be stubborn as in the past when you turned against God."
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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 Who heard God's voice and was against him? It was all those people 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 with whom was God angry for forty years? He was angry with those who sinned, who died in the desert.
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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 to whom was God talking when he promised that they would never enter his rest? He was talking to those who did not obey him.
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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 So we see they were not allowed to enter and have God's rest, because they did not believe.
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19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
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| Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
