20 For it proved to be Jehovah’s course to let their hearts become stubborn+ so as to declare war against Israel, in order that he might devote them to destruction, that they might come to have no favorable consideration,+ but in order that he might annihilate them, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.+

10 Discipline is bad to the one leaving the path;+ anyone hating reproof will die.+

18 So, then, upon whom he wishes he has mercy,+ but whom he wishes he lets become obstinate.+

13 but keep on exhorting+ one another each day, as long as it may be called “Today,”+ for fear any one of YOU should become hardened by the deceptive+ power* of sin.