^3:12See to it,¹⁷ brothers and sisters,¹⁸ that none of you has¹⁹ an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes²⁰ the living God.²¹^3:13But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. ^3:14For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence²² firm until the end. ^3:15As it says,²³ “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!²⁴ Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”²⁵^3:16For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?²⁶^3:17And against whom was God²⁷ provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?²⁸^3:18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? ^3:19So²⁹ we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

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Footnotes

12 The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b–11.
13 Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
14 Grk “tested me by trial.”
15 Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
16 Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.
17 Or “take care.”
18 Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in .
19 Grk “that there not be in any of you.”
20 Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”
21 Grk “in forsaking the living God.”
22 Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”
23 Grk “while it is said.”
24 Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
25 A quotation from Ps 95:7b–8.
26 Grk “through Moses.”
27 Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
28 An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.
29 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.