Hebrews 3:19
So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were not able to enter.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
In Context
18And to whom did God swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?
Cross References
John 3:18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:12so that all who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.
Jude 1:5Now I want to remind you, although you already know this, that after the Lord saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
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 →