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Hebrews 3:8
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6 but Christ as aa Son over His own house, bwhose house we are cif we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope1 firm to the end.  

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7 Therefore, as athe Holy Spirit says:
b“Today, if you will hear His voice, 
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but1 exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
15 while it is said:
a“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  
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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Hebrews 3:8

Harden not (mh sklhrunhte). Prohibition with mh and first aorist (ingressive) active subjunctive of sklhrunw, late verb from sklhrov (dried up, stiff, hard) as in Acts 19:9; Romans 9:18.

As in the provocation (wv hn tw parapikrasmw). Late compound from parapikrainw, late verb to embitter (para, pikrov), found only in LXX and here and verse Hebrews 3:15. It means embitterment, exasperation. For the simple verb pikrainw, to make bitter, see Colossians 3:19. The reference is to Meribah (Exodus 17:1-7).

Like as in the day (kata thn hmeran). "According to the day" as in Acts 12:1; Acts 19:23.

Of the temptation (tou peirasmou). The reference is to Massah which took place at Rephidim.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 3:8:

Acts 19:9
Hebrews 3:7
Hebrews 3:7
Hebrews 3:13
Hebrews 3:15
James 1:2

 

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