Hebrews 3:8

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Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

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  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he named the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
  • Deut 9:22-24 : 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
  • 1 Sam 6:6 : 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonders among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now 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 the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him and succeeded?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Happy is the man who always fears, but he who hardens his heart will fall into mischief.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to each person according to his deeds:
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Exod 8:15 : 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

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  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

    10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Heb 3:15-18
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    15 While it is said, Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.

    16 For some, when they heard, did provoke: yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

    17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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

  • 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice,

  • Heb 3:9-13
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    9 When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.

    10 Therefore I was grieved 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 into My rest.

    12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

    13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

    7 Again, he designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after so long a time, as it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40 How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

    41 Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • 6 Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonders among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  • 8 And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7 And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

    8 Now 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 the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

  • 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7 Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

    8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

  • 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

  • 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

    18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their desire.

  • 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

  • 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

  • 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

    14 And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.

  • 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.

  • 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

  • 8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

  • 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

  • 16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

  • 1 And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I may show these my signs before him:

  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the rock of flint;

    16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;

  • 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

  • 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

  • 18 Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations,

  • 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:

  • 12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them; as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

  • 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.

  • 22 Because all those men who have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

  • 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken through Moses.