Hebrews 3:5-19

English Standard Version

⁵^(A)Now Moses was faithful in all God's house ^(B)as a servant, ^(C)to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ⁶but Christ is faithful over God's house as ^(D)a son. And ^(E)we are his house, if indeed we ^(F)hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.^[a]

A Rest for the People of God

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^(G)“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 ^(H)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^(I)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 ^(J)the living God. ¹³But ^(K)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(L)the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, ^(M)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

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

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