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New Testament Reading - Warning against Unbelief

^7-8And since Christ is so much superior, the Holy Spirit warns us to listen to him, to be careful to hear his voice today and not let our hearts become set against him, as the people of Israel did. They steeled themselves against his love and complained against him in the desert while he was testing them. ⁹But God was patient with them forty years, though they tried his patience sorely; he kept right on doing his mighty miracles for them to see. ¹⁰“But,” God says, “I was very angry with them, for their hearts were always looking somewhere else instead of up to me, and they never found the paths I wanted them to follow.”

¹¹Then God, full of this anger against them, bound himself with an oath that he would never let them come to his place of rest.

¹²Beware then of your own hearts, dear brothers, lest you find that they, too, are evil and unbelieving and are leading you away from the living God. ¹³Speak to each other about these things every day while there is still time so that none of you will become hardened against God, being blinded by the glamor^a of sin. ¹⁴For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as we did when we first became Christians, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

1. Literally, “deceitfulness.”