Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus Is Greater than Moses
1 My Christian brothers, who also
have been called by God! Think
of Jesus, whom God sent to be the
High Priest of the faith we profess.
2 He was faithful to God, who chose
him to do this work, just as Moses
was faithful in his work in God's
house. note
3 A man who builds a house
receives more honor than the house
itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy
of much greater honor than
Moses.
4 Every house, of course, is
built by someone—and God is the
one who has built all things.
5 Moses
was faithful in God's house as a
servant, and he spoke of the things
that God would say in the future.
6 But Christ is faithful as the Son in
charge of God's house. We are his
house if we keep up our courage and
our confidence in what we hope for.
A Rest for God's People
7 So then, as the Holy Spirit says,
“If you hear God's voice today,
8
do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God,
as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.
9
There they put me to the test and tried me, says God,
although they had seen what I did for forty years.
10
And so I was angry with those people and said,
‘They are always disloyal
and refuse to obey my commands.’
11
I was angry and made a solemn promise:
‘They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!’” note
12 My fellow believers, be careful
that no one among you has a heart
so evil and unbelieving that he will
turn away from the living God.
13 Instead,
in order that none of you be
deceived by sin and become stubborn,
you must help one another
every day, as long as the word “Today”
in the scripture applies to us.
14 For we are all partners with Christ
if we hold firmly to the end the confidence
we had at the beginning.
15 This is what the scripture says:
“If you hear God's voice today,
do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were
when they rebelled against God.” note
16 Who were the people who heard
-- --
God's voice and rebelled against
him? All those who were led out of
Egypt by Moses.
17 With whom was
God angry for forty years? With the
people who sinned, who fell down
dead in the desert.
18 When God
made his solemn promise, “They
will never enter the land where I
would have given them rest”—of
whom was he speaking? Of those
who rebelled. note
19 We see, then, that
they were not able to enter the land,
because they did not believe.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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