Hebrews 3:15

To use the words of scripture – ‘If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me.’

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In The King James Version

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

In Context

14For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

16Who were they who heard God speak and yet provoked him? Were not they all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

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Cross References

Psalms 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people he tends, the sheep in his care. If only you would heed his voice today:

Hebrews 10:29How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the covenant valid – the blood by which they were purified – as if it were not holy, and who have outraged the Spirit of love?

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 →

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