Chapter 3

  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,  

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  being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,  

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  for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,  

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  for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,  

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  and Moses indeed [was] stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,  

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  and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.  

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  Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear --  

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  ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,  

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  in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;  

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  wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;  

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  so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')  

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  See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,  

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  but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,  

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  for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,  

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  in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'  

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  for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;  

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  but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?  

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  and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --  

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  and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.  

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