Hebrews 3:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 17:7 : 7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
  • Num 14:11 : 11 Yahweh 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?
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me 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 those who despised me see it:
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
  • Deut 9:22-24 : 22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. 23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you;" then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh 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 wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now don't be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 "But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,
  • Job 9:4 : 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: 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 hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Exod 8:15 : 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

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  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

    9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

    10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

  • Heb 3:15-18
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    15while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

    16For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

    17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

  • Heb 3:7
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    7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

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    9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

    10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'

    11as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"

    12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

    13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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    6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

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  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

    41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

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    8and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

    8Now don't be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

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    2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

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    7Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

    8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

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    16"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

    18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

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    39to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

    14Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

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    21Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

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    14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

  • Num 32:8
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    8Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

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    51"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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    16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

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  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

    16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

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    14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed awful blasphemies;

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    56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

  • Exod 9:12
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    12Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

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    27But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

  • Num 14:22
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    22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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    35The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.