¹⁵ Also ^(A)I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

⁵ Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased. For ^(A)they were ^[a]struck down in the wilderness.

¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ, ^(A)if we hold fast the beginning of our ^(B)assurance firm until the end, ¹⁵ while it is said,

¹⁶ For who ^(D)provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, ^(E)did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(F)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear ^(G)that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were ^(H)disobedient? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to enter because of ^(I)unbelief.