Acts 7:51

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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

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Bible References

Stiffnecked

So then Yahweh said unto Moses, - I have looked on this people, and lo! a stiff-necked people, it is.

into a land flowing with milk and honey, - for I will not go up in thy midst in that a stiff-necked people, thou art, lest I consume thee in the way.

and said - If, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, O My Lord, I pray thee let My Lord go on in our midst, - although a stiff-necked people, it is, so wilt thou pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us as thine own.

So then, thou must consider that, not for thine own righteousness, is Yahweh thy God giving unto thee this good land to possess it, - for a stiff-necked people, thou art.

For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck, - lo! while I am yet alive with you to-day, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death?

Now, do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers, - stretch forth the hand unto Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary which he hath hallowed unto times age-abiding, and serve Yahweh your God, that he may turn from you the glow of his anger.

But, they and our fathers, dealt proudly, - and hardened their neck, and hearkened not unto thy commandments;

Do not lift up on high your horn, Nor speak of the Rock, with arrogance;

And not become, like their fathers, a generation stubborn and rebellious, - A generation that fixed not their heart, Neither was their spirit, faithful with GOD.

Because I knew that - Obstinate, thou wast, - And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen,

Howbeit they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, - but stiffened their neck, that they might not hearken, neither receive correction.

and it is unto such sons - of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I am sending thee, - therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh.

Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder, - and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear;

Resist

And they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking,

And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear, - therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

But, they, rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit, - And so he turned against them as an enemy, he himself, fought against them.

And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;

As

And, the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, gave him up into Egypt; and, God, was, with him,

So that ye bear witness against yourselves, that ye are, sons, of them who murdered the prophets.

General references

Nevertheless ye were not willing to go up, - but rebelled against the bidding of Yahweh, your God;

Ye have been quarrelling, with Yahweh, - from the day that I first knew you.

According to all the doings which they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, even until this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so, are they doing even unto thee.

And Yahweh spake unto Manasseh and unto his people, but they did not give ear.

We have sinned - with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;

Lo! I have made thy face bold like as their faces, and thy forehead bold like as their forehead.

and were saying unto him - By what authority, these things, art thou doing? And who to thee hath given this authority that, these things, thou shouldst be doing?

But, his citizens, hated him, and sent off an embassy after him, saying - We desire not, this, man, to be made king over us!

Concerning sin, indeed, because they are not believing on me;