Hebrews 3:7–19

A Rest for the People of God

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^b“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 fathers put me to the test

and saw my works for ^cforty years.

¹⁰Therefore I was provoked with that generation,

and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;

they have not known my ways.’

^11dAs I swore in my wrath,

‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”

¹²Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^ethe living God. ¹³But ^fexhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^gthe deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, ^hif indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

^b“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁶For ⁱwho were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^jall those who left Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^kwhose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did he swear that ^lthey would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹So we see that ^mthey were unable to enter because of unbelief.