Hebrews 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews 3:10 in other translations
| BSB | Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ |
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| WEB | Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’ |
| ASV | Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; |
| YLT | wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways; |
| DARBY | Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways; |
| BBE | So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; |
| Webster | Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. |
What does Hebrews 3:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hebrews 3:7-11
7-11. Exhortation from Psa 95:7-11, not through unbelief to lose participation in the spiritual house. Seeing that we are the house of God if we hold fast our confidence ... (He 3:6). Jesus is "faithful," be not ye unfaithful (He 3:2, 12). The sentence beginning with "wherefore," interrupted by the parenthesis confirming the argument from Psa 95:7-11, is completed at He 3:12, "Take heed," &c. Holy Ghost saith--by…
Barnes' Notes
They do alway err in their heart. Their long trial of forty years had been sufficient to show that it was a characteristic of the people that they were disposed to wander from God. Forty years are enough to show what the character is. They had seen his works; they had been called to obey him; they had received his law; and yet their conduct, during that time, had shown that they were not disposed to obey him. So of an individual. A man who has lived in sin forty years; who during all that time has rebelled against God, and disregarded all his appeals; who has lived for himself, and not for his Maker, has shown what his character is. Longer time is unnecessary; and if God should then cut him down, and consign him to hell, he could not be blamed for doing it. A man who during forty years will live in sin, and resist all the appeals of God, shows what is in his heart; and no injustice is done if then he is summoned before God, and he swears that he shall not enter into his rest.
And they have not known my ways. They have been rebellious. They have not been acquainted with the true God; or they have not approved my doings. The word know is often used, in the Scriptures, in the sense of approving, or loving. Mt 7:23.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hebrews 3:7-13
Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him. God…
Hebrews 3:10 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Hebrews 3:10
- Psalms 95:10
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- Psalms 67:2
That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
- Jeremiah 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
- Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
- Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
- Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- John 8:45
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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Context
- Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
- Hebrews 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
- Hebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Hebrews 3:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | A causa de lo cual me enemisté con esta generación, y dije: Siempre divagan ellos de corazón, y no han conocido mis caminos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est pourquoi j’ai été indigné contre cette génération, et j’ai dit: Ils s’égarent toujours dans leur cœur et ils n’ont point connu mes voies. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deshalb zürnte ich diesem Geschlecht und sprach: Allezeit gehen sie irre mit dem Herzen; aber sie haben meine Wege nicht erkannt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quadraginta annis: propter quod infensus fui generationi huic, et dixi: Semper errant corde. Ipsi autem non cognoverunt vias meas, |