Hebrews 3:11-19

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ¹ 

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  3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. 3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence ⁷  firm until the end. 3:15 As it says, ⁸  “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ⁹  Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” ¹⁰  3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? ¹¹  3:17 And against whom was God ¹²  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹³  3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So ¹⁴  we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

[3:11]  ¹ tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.

[3:12]  ² tn Or “take care.”

[3:12]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[3:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”

[3:12]  ⁵ tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”

[3:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”

[3:14]  ³ tn Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”

[3:15]  ⁴ tn Grk “while it is said.”

[3:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:15]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.

[3:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “through Moses.”

[3:17]  ⁶ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:17]  ⁷ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

[3:19]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.