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

⁷ Wherefore as the holy spirit saith, "since to-day you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts, as at Meriba and Massa in the desart: ⁹ where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works. ¹⁰ wherefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, they do alway err in their hearts; and they have not known my ways. ¹¹ so I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you such incredulity as to make you desert the living God. ¹³ but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ for we were receiv'd into the communion of Christ, upon condition of inviolably maintaining the hope we had at the beginning even unto the end, ¹⁵ which is imply'd by, "to-day since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as at Meriba."

¹⁶ for some when they had heard his voice, did provoke him: however, not all that were brought out of Egypt by Moses did so. ¹⁷ but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert? ¹⁸ and who were they, who, he sware, should not enter into his rest, but those that did not believe? so we see that they could not enter in, ¹⁹ because of their incredulity.