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

⁷ Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts as at the Provocation, on the day of the Temptation in the desert, ⁹ where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do. ¹⁰ Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways; ¹¹ so I swore in my anger, 'they shall never enter my Rest.'

¹² Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God. ¹³ Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened. ¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started, ¹⁵ this word ever sounding in our ears, To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the Provocation.

¹⁶ Who heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his Rest? To whom but those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ Thus we see it was owing to unbelief that they could not enter.