The Hardened Heart: Unbelief Forfeits God's Rest

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,

⁸ do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

⁹ where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

¹⁰ Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

¹¹ So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

¹² See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

¹³ But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

¹⁴ We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

¹⁵ As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

¹⁶ For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

¹⁷ And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

¹⁹ So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.