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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon, Chapter 3
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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was
faithful in all his house.
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For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch
as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
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For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all
things is God.
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And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for
a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
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But
Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his
voice,
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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day
of temptation in the wilderness:
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When your fathers tempted me,
proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
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So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any
of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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While it is said, To day if
ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
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For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that
came out of Egypt by Moses.
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But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them
that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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And to
whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them
that believed not?
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So we see that they could not enter in
because of unbelief.
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