I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet.

I assure you that John the Baptist is greater than anyone who has ever lived. But the one who is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than John.

For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do.

Anyone who does not obey that prophet shall be separated from God's people and destroyed.'

Moses was amazed by what he saw, and went near the bush to get a better look. But he heard the Lord's voice:

The one thing required of such servants is that they be faithful to their master.

But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.

Every house, of course, is built by someone---and God is the one who has built all things.

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.

Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by people as worthless but chosen by God as valuable.

Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.