Hebrews 3:8

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“do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,”

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“do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:”

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“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,”

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“ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hebrews 3:8 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
  2. Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
  3. Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
  4. Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
  5. Deuteronomy 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:22You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
  7. 1 Samuel 6:6Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
  8. 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
  9. 2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
  10. 2 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  11. Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
  12. Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
  13. Psalms 78:18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
  14. Psalms 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
  15. Psalms 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
  16. Proverbs 28:14Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
  17. Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
  18. Jeremiah 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
  19. Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
  20. Daniel 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
  21. Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
  22. Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart has grown 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.’
  23. Acts 19:9But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
  24. Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

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