The Peril of Unbelief

12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from [the] living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to [the] end the assurance [we had] at first. 15 As it has been said:

“Today, if you hear His voice,

{do} not harden your hearts,

as [you did] in the rebellion.”[fn]

16 For some heard [and] rebelled, but not all those Moses led out of Egypt.[fn] 17 And with whom was [God] angry for 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 never enter His rest? [Was it] not to those who disobeyed? 19 [So] we see that [it was] because of [their] unbelief that they were unable to enter.