³⁰ He must become greater; I must become less.”^[a]

¹⁸ And he is the head^(A) of the body, the church;^(B) he is the beginning and the firstborn^(C) from among the dead,^(D) so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

² He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.^{(A) 3} Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,^(B) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ⁴ For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.^{(C) 5} “Moses was faithful as a servant^(D) in all God’s house,”^[a](E) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶ But Christ is faithful as the Son^(F) over God’s house. And we are his house,^(G) if indeed we hold firmly^(H) to our confidence and the hope^(I) in which we glory.

⁵ What, after all, is Apollos?^(A) And what is Paul? Only servants,^(B) through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵ The seventh angel sounded his trumpet,^(A) and there were loud voices^(B) in heaven, which said:

³⁶ “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep;^(A) he was buried with his ancestors^(B) and his body decayed. ³⁷ But the one whom God raised from the dead^(C) did not see decay.

⁴⁴ “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush^(A) all those kingdoms^(B) and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.^{(C) 45} This is the meaning of the vision of the rock^(D) cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands^(E)—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.^(F) The dream is true^(G) and its interpretation is trustworthy.”