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Hebrews 2

The Epistle to the Hebrews

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Chapter 3

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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;  

 

 

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  Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.  

 

 

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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.  

 

 

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  For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.  

 

 

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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;  

 

 

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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.  

 

 

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  And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,  

 

 

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  Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,  

 

 

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  When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.  

 

 

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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;  

 

 

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  And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.  

 

 

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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:  

 

 

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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:  

 

 

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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;  

 

 

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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.  

 

 

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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?  

 

 

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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?  

 

 

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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?  

 

 

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  So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.  

 

 

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