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And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hebrews.3.6.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><h3 class="head1">Warning against Unbelief</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:</p><blockquote class="otdynprose"><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">Today, if you hear his voice,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="otquote">do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">on the day of testing in the wilderness,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="otquote">where your ancestors tested me, tried </span><span class="otquote">me</span>,</p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">and saw my works</span> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="otquote">for forty years.</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">and said, “They always go astray in their hearts,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">and they have not known my ways.”</span></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="otquote">So I swore in my anger,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">“They will not enter my rest.”</span><a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.11.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p></blockquote><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> from the living God. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But encourage each other daily,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> while it is still called <span class="otquote">today</span>, so that none of you is hardened<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.13.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> by sin’s deception.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.13.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hebrews.3.14.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> that we had at the start.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As it is said:</p><blockquote class="otdynprose"><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">Today, if you hear his voice,</span></p><p class="scripture"><span class="otquote">do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.</span><a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.15.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p></blockquote><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hebrews.3.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hebrews.3.19" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.</p><br /><section id="footnotes-Hebrews.3" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Hebrews.3.6.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.6">3:6</a></span> Other mss add <span class="italic">firm to the end</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hebrews.3.14.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.14">3:14</a></span> Or <span class="italic">confidence</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Hebrews.3" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.1">3:1</a></span> Rm 15:8; Php 3:14; Heb 2:11,17; 4:14–15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.4">3:4</a></span> Eph 2:10; 3:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.5">3:5</a></span> Ex 14:31; Nm 12:7–8; Dt 18:19; 34:5; Jos 1:2,7,13,15; 11:12,15; 12:6; 1Kg 8:53,56; Mal 4:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.6">3:6</a></span> Mt 10:22; Rm 5:2; 11:22; 1Co 3:16; Heb 1:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.7">3:7-11</a></span> Ps 95:7–11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.11.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.7">3:7-11</a></span> Ps 95:7–11; Ac 7:36; Heb 4:3,5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.12">3:12</a></span> Lk 8:13; Ac 15:38; 1Tm 4:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.13">3:13</a></span> 1Th 2:12; 2Th 3:12; Heb 10:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.13.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.13">3:13</a></span> Ac 19:9; Rm 9:18; Heb 3:8,15; 4:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.13.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.13">3:13</a></span> Eph 4:22; Heb 10:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.14">3:14</a></span> 1Co 15:2; Heb 3:6; 10:23; 11:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.15">3:15</a></span> Ps 95:7–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.15.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.15">3:15</a></span> Ps 95:7–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.16">3:16</a></span> Nm 14:2; Dt 1:35–38</aside><aside id="xrf.Hebrews.3.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hebrews.3.17">3:17</a></span> Nm 14:29; Ps 106:26</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Hebrews.3" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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