Chapter 3

Christ is more excellent than Moses: and therefore we must adhere to him by faith and obedience.

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   Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Jesus:

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   Who is faithful to him who appointed him, as was also Moses in all his house.

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   For he was deemed worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he who hath built the house, hath greater honour than the house.

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   For every house is built by some man: but he who created all things, is God.

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   And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken:

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   But Christ, as a Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold firm the confidence, and the glory of hope unto the end.

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   Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day, if you shall hear his voice,

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   Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,

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   Where your fathers tempted me, proved, and saw my works,

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    Forty years: For which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways,

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    As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

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    Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God:

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    But exhort one another every day, whilst to-day is named: lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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    For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

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    While it is said: To-day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

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    For some who heard did provoke: but not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

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    And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert?

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    And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that believed not.

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    And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.