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who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

but Christ as a Son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation."

To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.

For he has said somewhere about the seventh day like this, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts."

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

for God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you shown toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Wherein God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek'".

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, Every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all will know me, From the least of them to the greatest of them.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.