Warning Against Hardening the Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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