Hebrews 3:8
you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7For this reason, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you may hear His voice—
9in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years;
Cross References
Exodus 8:15And Pharaoh sees that there has been a respite, and he has hardened his heart, and has not listened to them, as YHWH has spoken.
Numbers 14:11And YHWH says to Moses, “Until when does this people despise Me? And until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
Deuteronomy 6:16You do not try your God YHWH as you tried [Him] in Massah.
1 Samuel 6:6and why do you harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Do they not—when He has rolled Himself on them—send them away, and they go?
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not harden your neck like your fathers, give a hand to YHWH, and come into His sanctuary that He has sanctified for all time, and serve your God YHWH, and the fierceness of His anger turns back from you;
Nehemiah 9:16And they and our fathers have acted proudly, || And harden their neck, || And have not listened to Your commands,
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 3:8-19
Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you… Read the whole commentary →