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3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heauenly vocation, consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus:
3:2 Who was faithfull to him that hath appointed him, euen as Moses was in al his house.
3:3 For this man is counted worthy of more glory then Moses, inasmuch as he which hath builded the house, hath more honour then the house.
3:4 For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.
3:5 Now Moses verely was faithfull in all his house, as a seruant, for a witnesse of the thinges which should be spoken after.
3:6 But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende.
3:7 Wherefore, as the holy Ghost sayth, To day if ye shall heare his voyce,
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation, according to the day of the tentation in the wildernes,
3:9 Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long.
3:10 Wherefore I was grieued with that generation, and sayde, They erre euer in their heart, neither haue they knowen my wayes.
3:11 Therefore I sware in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
3:12 Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God.
3:13 But exhort one another dayly, while it is called to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes of sinne.
3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we keepe sure vnto the ende that beginning, wherewith we are vpholden,
3:15 So long as it is sayd, To day if ye heare his voyce, harden not your hearts, as in the prouocation.
3:16 For some when they heard, prouoked him to anger: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
3:17 But with whome was he displeased fourtie yeeres? Was hee not displeased with them that sinned, whose carkeises fell in the wildernes?
3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but vnto them that obeyed not?
3:19 So we see that they could not enter in, because of vnbeliefe.