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Hebrews 3:7-4:11
Lexham English Bible
A Serious Warning Against Unbelief
7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
โToday, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers tested me by trial
and saw my works 10 for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with this generation,
and I said, โThey always go astray in their heart,
and they do not know my ways.โ
11 As I swore in my anger,
โThey will never enter[a] into my rest.โโ[b]
12 Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away[c] from the living God. 13 But encourage one another day by day[d], as long as it is called โtoday,โ so that none of you become hardened[e] by the deception of sin. 14 For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end, 15 while it is said[f],
โToday, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.โ[g]
16 For who, when they[h] heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19 And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
The Rest that Remains for the People of God
4 Therefore let us fear, while there[i] remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us[j], just as those also did, but the message they heard[k] did not benefit them, because they[l] were not united with those who heard it in faith. 3 For we who have believed enter into rest,[m] just as he has said,
โAs I swore in my anger,
โThey will never enter[n] into my rest.โโ[o]
And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: โAnd God rested on the seventh day from all his works,โ[p] 5 and in this passage again, โThey will never enter[q] into my rest.โโ[r] 6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and the ones to whom the good news was proclaimed previously did not enter because of disobedience, 7 again he ordains a certain day, today, speaking by David after so long a time, just as had been said before,
โToday, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.โ[s]
8 For if Joshua had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things. 9 Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.
11 Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.