Hebrews 3:8
do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
In Context
7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,"Today if you will hear his voice,
9where your fathers tested me and challenged me,and saw my works for forty years.
Cross References
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken.
Numbers 14:11The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
Deuteronomy 6:16You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
1 Samuel 6:6Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, did not listen to your commandments,
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 →