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who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.

And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you might seem to have failed [of it].

For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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

And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and [still] ministering.

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up himself.

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them.

nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.

nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;