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1 | Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; |
2 | Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. |
3 | For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. |
4 | For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. |
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And Moses verily was 1faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; |
6 | But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the aend. |
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Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Psa 95:7 |
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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Psa 95:8 |
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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Psa 95:9 |
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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. Psa 95:10 |
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So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Psa 95:11 |
12 | Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. |
13 | But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. |
14 | For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the aend; |
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While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. Psa 95:7,8 |
16 | For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. |
17 | But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? |
18 | And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? |
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So we see that they could not enter in because of 1unbelief. |
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(a) "end" = goal, outcome, limit (Greek "telos"). Does not mean entire completion, consumation of a dispensation, termination. See notes at Matt 10:22 Return to Verse 6 |
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(a) "end" = goal, outcome, limit (Greek "telos"). Does not mean entire completion, consumation of a dispensation, termination. See notes at Matt 10:22 Return to Verse 14 |
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