Hebrews 3:7–19

Warning Against Unbelief

⁷So, as the Holy Spirit says:^f

“Today, if you hear his voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts^g

as you did in the rebellion,

during the time of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors tested and tried me,

though for forty years they saw what I did.^h

¹⁰That is why I was angry with that generation;

I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,

and they have not known my ways.’

¹¹So I declared on oath in my anger,ⁱ

‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ^j”^bk

¹²See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^{l 13}But encourage one another daily,^m as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{n 14}We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^o our original conviction firmly to the very end.^{p 15}As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts

as you did in the rebellion.”^cq

¹⁶Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{r 17}And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{s 18}And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^t if not to those who disobeyed?^{u 19}So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^v