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2 He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful 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 Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor 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 built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)
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For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
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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 was faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.
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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 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, when you hear his voice,
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So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing 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 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
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where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; 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 As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"
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So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
12 Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away 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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