Jesus Greater Than Moses
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Therefore, holy brothers,a you who share in 1a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, 2the apostle and high priest of our confession,
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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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(For every house is built by someone, but 4the builder of all things is God.)
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5Now Moses was faithful in all God's house 6as a servant, 7to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
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but Christ is faithful over God's house as 8a son. And 9we are his house if indeed we 10hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.c
A Rest for the People of God
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Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, 11"Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
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where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for 12forty years.
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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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13As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"
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Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from 14the living God.
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But 15exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by 16the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have come to share in Christ, 17if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
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As it is said, 18"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
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For 19who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not 20all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
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And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, 21whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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And to whom did he swear that 22they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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So we see that 23they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)