2.2 KiB
Our Apostle and High Priest
Chapter 3
- Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
- He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household.
- For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.
- Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
- Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.
- But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
Warning against Unbelief
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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 ancestors tested me, tried me**, and saw my works**
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for forty years.** Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation** and said, "They always go astray in their hearts,** and they have not known my ways."**
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So I swore in my anger,** "They will not enter my rest."**
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Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today**, so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception.
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For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.
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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 heard and rebelled? Wasn't it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?
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With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn't it 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, if not to those who disobeyed?
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So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.