Hebrews 3:7–19

WARNING AGAINST UNBELIEF

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

Today, if you hear his voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

on the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors tested me, tried me,

and saw my works ¹⁰for forty years.

Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation

and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.”

¹¹So I swore in my anger,

“They will not enter my rest.”^Br

¹²Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away^s from the living God. ¹³But encourage each other daily,^t while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened^u by sin’s deception.^{v 14}For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality^C that we had at the start.^{w 15}As it is said:

Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.^Dx

¹⁶For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?^{y 17}With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^{z 18}And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.