Hebrews 3:15

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?