3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, 1 and they saw my works for forty years.
3:12 See to it, 2 brothers and sisters, 3 that none of you has 4 an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes 5 the living God. 6
4:1 Therefore we must be wary 7 that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
1 tn Grk “tested me by trial.”
1 tn Or “take care.”
2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
3 tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”
4 tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”
5 tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”
1 tn Grk “let us fear.”
1 sn A quotation from Prov 4:26. The phrase make straight paths for your feet is figurative for “stay on God’s paths.”