First Option - First Reading: Hebrews 3:7-14

⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice,
⁸ do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
⁹ where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
¹⁰ Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’
<sup>11</sup> As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.’”
¹² Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
¹³ But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
¹⁴ For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,