Weymouth New Testament

Hebrews 2

The Epistle to the Hebrews

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Chapter 3

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   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.  

 

 

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

 

 

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   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.  

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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   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.  

 

 

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   For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, 'To-day, if you hear His voice,  

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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   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.'  

 

 

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   As I swore in My anger, they shall not be admitted to My rest' --  

 

 

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   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.  

 

 

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   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.  

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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   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?  

 

 

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   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?  

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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Hebrews 4

 

 

 

 

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