Hebrews 3:8 - Forerunner Commentary

Hebrews 3:8

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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16 ^aFor who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^awhose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18 And ^ato whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of ^aunbelief.

Verse Comparison: Hebrews 3:8

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American Standard Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Amplified® Bible
Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] {and} their provocation {and} embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,

Contemporary English Version
don't be stubborn! Don't rebel like those people who were tested in the desert. *

Darby English Version
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

Good News Bible
do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when they rebelled against God, as they were that day in the desert when they put him to the test.

International Standard Version
do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me during the time of testing in the wilderness.

King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

New American Standard Bible
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

New International Version
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,

New King James Version
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

Young's Literal Translation
ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

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