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1 Therefore, holy brothers, you share in a heavenly calling. Think about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was also faithful in God’ s house.
3 For he has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the one who builds a house has much greater honor than the house itself.
4 For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
5 For Moses was faithful as a servant in God’ s entire house, for a testimony about the things that were to be spoken of in the future.
6 But Christ is faithful as a Son who is in charge of God’ s house. We are his house if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
7 Therefore, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the time of testing in the wilderness.
9 There your fathers rebelled by testing me, and they saw my works
10 for forty years. Therefore I was displeased with that generation. I said, ‘They have always gone astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’
11 It is just as I swore in my anger: ‘ They will never enter into my rest.’”
12 Be careful, brothers, so that there will not be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, that turns away from the living God.
13 Instead, encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that no one among you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partners of Christ if we firmly hold to our confidence from the beginning to the end.
15 About this it has been said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
16 For who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?
17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
19 We see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
The Letter to the Hebrews