What does Hebrews 3:11 mean?

Hebrews 3:11 highlights themes such as rest, judgment, unbelief when read in context.

How should I apply Hebrews 3:11 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13But 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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Hebrews 4:3
This verse discusses the consequences of unbelief in relation to entering God's rest.
Psalm 95:11
This verse echoes the warning given in Psalm 95 about entering God's rest.