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3:1  My friends, God has chosen you to be his holy people. So think about Jesus, the one we call our apostle and high priest!
3:2  Jesus was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in serving all God's people.
3:3  But Jesus deserves more honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves more honor than the house.
3:4  Of course, every house is built by someone, and God is really the one who built everything.
3:5  Moses was a faithful servant and told God's people what would be said in the future.
3:6  But Christ is the Son in charge of God's people. And we are those people, if we keep on being brave and don't lose hope.
3:7  It is just as the Holy Spirit says, “If you hear God's voice today,
3:8  don't be stubborn! Don't rebel like those people who were tested in the desert. *
3:9  For forty years your ancestors tested God and saw the things he did.
3:10  “Then God got tired of them and said, ‘You people never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do.’
3:11  God became angry and told the people, ‘You will never enter my place of rest!’ ”
3:12  My friends, watch out! Don't let evil thoughts or doubts make any of you turn from the living God.
3:13  You must encourage one another each day. And you must keep on while there is still a time that can be called “today.” If you don't, then sin may fool some of you and make you stubborn.
3:14  We were sure about Christ when we first became his people. So let's hold tightly to our faith until the end.
3:15  The Scriptures say, “If you hear his voice today, don't be stubborn like those who rebelled.”
3:16  Who were those people that heard God's voice and rebelled? Weren't they the same ones that came out of Egypt with Moses?
3:17  Who were the people that made God angry for 40 years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?
3:18  And who did God say would never enter his place of rest? Weren't they the ones that disobeyed him?
3:19  We see that those people did not enter the place of rest because they did not have faith.