Hebrews 3:7-12

A Rest for the People of God

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
b "Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for c forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, 'They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.'
11 d As I swore in my wrath,
'They shall not enter my rest.'"

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from e the living God.

  1. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:15
    As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
    Hebrews 4:7
    Again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.
    Psalms 95:7 - 11
    For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 95:7 - 11
    For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice.
  3. Cross References
    Acts 7:36
    This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
  4. Cross References
    Hebrews 4:3
    For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
    Hebrews 4:5
    And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 16:16
    Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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