¹⁸ And ^(A)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of ^(B)unbelief.

⁶ On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, ^(A)to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, ^(B)‘flowing with milk and honey,’ ^(C)the glory of all lands.

³² Yet, for all that, ^(A)you did not believe the Lord your God,

^31 (A)But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall ^[a]know the land which ^(B)you have despised.

⁶ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^(A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

¹⁶ lest there be any ^(A)fornicator or ^[a]profane person like Esau, ^(B)who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, ^[a]not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

¹² Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;