Hebrews 3:7-19 - A Serious Warning Against Unbelief

⁷ The Holy Spirit says: Today if you will hear his voice, ⁸ do not harden your hearts and be stubborn like those who tested me in the day of temptation in the wilderness. ⁹ Your forefathers examined (inspected) (scrutinized) me by proving (testing) me. And they saw my works for forty years. ¹⁰ I was disgusted (angry) with this generation, and said: 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.' ¹¹ So I swore in my anger: 'They will not enter into my rest.'

¹² Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God. ¹³ Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become companions (partners) with Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of our firm trust to the end. ¹⁵ Scripture says: Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Do not be stubborn like those who rebelled.

¹⁶ Who were they who heard God and rebelled? All who came out of Egypt with Moses rebelled. ¹⁷ With whom was he disgusted for forty years? He was disgusted and angry with those who sinned and died in the desert. ¹⁸ Who did God swear would never enter his rest? He was talking about those who did not obey him. ¹⁹ We see that they could not enter in on account of a lack of faith (unbelief) (disobedience).