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,

as on the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹where your ancestors put me to the test,^a

though they had seen my works ¹⁰for forty years.

Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts,

and they have not known my ways.’

¹¹As in my anger I swore,

‘They will not enter my rest.’ ”

¹²Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”^*

¹⁶Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?^{* 17}And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^{* 18}And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?^{* 19}So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.^*