Warning Against Hardening the Heart

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Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,

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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,

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Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

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Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

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As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

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Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

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But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

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While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

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For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

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And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?