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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 3, Verse 9

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
King James Version
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.
American Standard Version
Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
New English Translation
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.
World English Bible
where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
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So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
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While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
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For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
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But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
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So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.