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2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his 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 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.
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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 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
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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 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.
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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.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
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So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.
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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That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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