Hebrews 3 / 13
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(Jesus Greater Than Moses)
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
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who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
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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 the builder of all things is God.)
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Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,
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but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
- 7(A Rest for the People of God)
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
"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 forty 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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As 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 the living God.
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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
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As it is said,
"Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
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For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all 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, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.