Acts 7:51

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Stiffnecked

Resist

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Acts 7:9

Matthew 23:31

General references

Bible References

Stiffnecked

And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Resist

But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

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And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

General references

But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.

And they said to him, By what authority do you do these things? or who gave you authority to do these things?

But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

Of sin, because they have not faith in me;