Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
1 My Christian friends, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the faith we profess.
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Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.
2 He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.
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He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
3 A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
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Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
4 Every house, of course, is built by someone - and God is the one who has built all things.
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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.
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“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.
6 But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
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But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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