Chapter 3                                 

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  3: • 1 Therefore, devoted brothers and sisters, active partakers of the heavenly calling, consider carefully the Apostle and High Priest of our same speaking, Jesus, 2 who is presently being faithful to the One who causes Him, as also Moses was faithful inside his entire house. 3 For He has been accounted worthy of more excellent and plenteous glory than Moses, just as the one who builds a house has greater honor than the house itself. • 4 Indeed, every house is built by someone, but the One who built all is God. 5 And Moses was truly faithful inside his entire house as an attendant, to become a testimony of what will be continuously spoken. • 6 Christ, however, as Son upon His house, whose house we are, IF INDEED, our confidence, our bold and public speaking [of Christ our life] and the exultant boasting of our hope [that we are just like Jesus – 1 John 3:1-3], we should hold upon firm unto all completion [e].

• 7 Therefore, just as the Devoted Spirit says (Psalm 95:7-11), “Today, if you should hear and comprehend His voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the provoking, in the day of testing and despair in the wilderness, 10 where your forefathers tested Me by trying to examine Me, even though they saw My works. For forty years, then, I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always wander and go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways.’ 11 So I swore in My angry opposition, “If they will enter into My rest!’” [f]

• 12 Look carefully, brothers and sisters, lest there would ever be inside any of you an evil heart of unbelief into withdrawing from the living God. 13 But encourage each other every day, while it is called, “Today,” so that not one of you might be hardened by the false impression of falling short. • 14 For we have become partakers of Christ IF INDEED the source of our substance and assurance [in opposition to any present outward appearance], we should hold firm until all completion [g]. 15 As it is said, “Today, If you should hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the provoking.”

16 Who were those who provoked God even though they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses? 17 With whom, then, was He angry forty years? Was it not those having sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 To whom, then, did He swear that they would not enter into His rest? Was it not those who refused to be persuaded? • 19 And so we see that they were not able to enter in through unbelief, that is, through the absence of faith.
 		  
 
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