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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
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For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
2 was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also "was faithful in all God's house."
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Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
3 Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
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And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.
4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
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For every house has a builder; 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 would be spoken later.
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And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;
6 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.
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But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,
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And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
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Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
9 where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works
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When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
10 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.'
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So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
11 As in my anger I swore, "They will not enter my rest.' "
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And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
12 Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
13 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.
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But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
14 For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
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For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
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 will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
16 Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
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Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?
17 But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
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And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
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