Hebrews 3:15

15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”^[a]

Hebrews 3:15 in Other Translations

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

15 As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."

15 Remember what it says: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled.”

15 These words keep ringing in our ears: Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.

15 while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

15 Scripture says, "If you hear God speak today, don't be stubborn. Don't be stubborn like those who rebelled."

15 As it is said: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

15 It has just been said, "Listen to his voice today. If you hear it, don't be stubborn. You were stubborn when you opposed me." (Psalm 95:7,8)

Hebrews 3:15 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:15

While it is said today
Exhort one another, and hold fast Christ and his Gospel, and faith and confidence therein; what follows is a repetition of the citation in ( Hebrews 3:7 Hebrews 3:8 ) in order to make a further improvement of it; which shows, that the words belong to the present times of the Gospel, and contain in them matter of moment, and great concern; and that Scripture instructions and exhortations are of perpetual use.

Hebrews 3:15 In-Context

13 But encourage 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 indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?

Cross References

• 1. ver 7,8; Psalms 95:7,8; Hebrews 4:7

Footnotes

• [a]. Psalm 95:7,8