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1 - Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

2 - How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

3 - For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

4 - For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

5 - Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

6 - but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

7 - For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, <FO>"To-day, if you hear His voice,

8 - do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,

9 - where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

10 - Therefore I was greatly grieved with that generation, and I said, `They are ever going astray in heart, and have not learnt to know My paths.'

11 - As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest" --<Fo>

12 - see to it, brethren, that there is never in any one of you--as perhaps there may be--a sinful and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in revolt from the ever-living God.

13 - On the contrary encourage one another, day after day, so long as To-day lasts, so that not one of you may be hardened through the deceitful character of sin.

14 - For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;

15 - seeing that the warning still comes to us, <FO>"To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation."<Fo>

16 - For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

17 - And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

18 - And to whom did He swear that they should not be admitted to His rest, if it was not to those who were disobedient?

19 - And so we see that it was owing to lack of faith that they could not be admitted.