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

And 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 unto the end.

Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice,

while it is said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient?

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

For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

he again defineth a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time, Today, as it hath been before said, Today if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

And there is no creature that is not manifest in 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 supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye shewed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

Wherein God, being minded to shew more abundantly unto 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.

but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.

who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to 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.

And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least 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.

nor yet that he should offer himself often; as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;