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“1 ¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful]
in all his 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. 4 For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built
all things [is] God. 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; 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.”
“7 ¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me,
and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that
generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have
not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into
my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one
another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of
Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the
end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard,
did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But
with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had
sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he
that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews
3:1-19 AV)
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