Hebrews 3:7-4:2

English Standard Version

A Rest for the People of God

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^(A)“Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
    on the day of testing in the wilderness,
⁹where your fathers put me to the test
    and saw my works for ^(B)forty years.
¹⁰Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
    they have not known my ways.’
¹¹^(C)As I swore in my wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

¹²Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^(D)the living God. ¹³But ^(E)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(F)the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, ^(G)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

^(H)“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁶For ^(I)who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^(J)all those who left Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(K)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did he swear that ^(L)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹So we see that ^(M)they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem ^(N)to have failed to reach it. ²For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because ^(O)they were not united by faith with those who listened.^[a]