Hebrews 3:12-19

A Rest for the People of God

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. 13 But f exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by g the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, h if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

15 As it is said,
b "Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

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

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 16:16
    Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  2. Cross References
    Hebrews 10:24 - 25
    And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:20
    He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?
    Romans 7:11
    For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
    Ephesians 4:22
    To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
  4. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:6
    But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
    Hebrews 10:23
    Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
    1 Corinthians 15:2
    And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
  5. Cross References
    Hebrews 3:7
    Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 95:7 - 8
    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.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 14:2
    And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
    Deuteronomy 1:34 - 35
    And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 14:24
    But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
    Deuteronomy 1:36
    Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
    Deuteronomy 1:38
    Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
    Jude 1:5
    Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:34 - 35
    And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore.
    Hebrews 4:2
    For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
  11. Cross References
    Hebrews 4:6
    Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience.
    Psalms 78:22
    Because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
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