⚓WEB · Hebrews 3:8

What does Hebrews 3:8 mean?

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

— Hebrews 3:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

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but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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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 deeds 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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