Warning Against Hardening the Heart

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Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

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don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

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where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

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Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’

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as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

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Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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For we have become partakers of Messiah, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

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while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

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For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

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With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?