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Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,^(a) who share in the heavenly calling,^(b) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge^(c) as our apostle and high priest.^(d)

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.^(e)

Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,^(f) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.^(g)

"Moses was faithful as a servant^(h) in all God's house,"^[a](i) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.

But Christ is faithful as the Son^(j) over God's house. And we are his house,^(k) if indeed we hold firmly^(l) to our confidence and the hope^(m) in which we glory.

So, as the Holy Spirit says:⁽ⁿ⁾ "Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts^(o) as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,

where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did.^(p)

That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'

So I declared on oath in my anger,^(q) ‘They shall never enter my rest.' ^(r)"^[b](s)

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^(t)

But encourage one another daily,^(u) as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.^(v)

We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(w) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^(x)

As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."^[c](y)

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^(z)

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(aa)

And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(ab) if not to those who disobeyed?^(ac)

So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(ad)