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1 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.
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was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also "was faithful in all God's house."
3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
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Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. )
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(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
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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Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.
6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
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Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
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Therefore, 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 in the rebellion, as on the day 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 put me to the test, though they had seen my works
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways. ’
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for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'
11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest. ’”
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As in my anger I swore, "They will not enter my rest.' "
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
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Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
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For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. ”
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As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
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Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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