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

As

Acts 7:9

Matthew 23:31

General references

Bible References

Stiffnecked

And Jehovah will say to Moses, I saw this people, and behold, it a people of a hard neck

To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a people of a hard neck; lest I shall consume thee in the way.

And he will say, If now I found grace in thine eyes, my lord, my lord will go now in the midst of us (for it is a people of a hard neck) and forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take possession of us.

And know thou that not for thy justice did Jehovah thy God five to thee this good land to possess it; for thou a people of a hard neck.

For I knew thy rebellion and thy hard neck: behold, in my yet living with you this day, ye were rebelling against Jehovah; and much more after my death.

Now ye shall not harden your neck as your fathers; ye shall give the hand to Jehovah, and come ye into his holy place which he consecrated forever: and serve ye Jehovah your God, and he will turn back from you the burning of his anger.

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,

Ye shall not lift up your horn to elevation: ye will speak with an impudent neck.

And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

From my knowledge that thou wert hard, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy forehead of brass:

And they heard not, and they inclined not their ear, and they will harden their neck not to hear, and not to receive instruction.

And the sons hard of face and strong of heart. I send thee to them; and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah.

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.

Resist

And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

And thou wilt protract over them many years, and thou wilt testify against them by thy spirit in the hand of thy prophets: and they gave not ear, and thou wilt give them into the hand of the people of the lands.

They embittered and grieved his holy spirit; and he will turn to them for an enemy; he fought against them.

And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.

As

And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets.

General references

And ye were not willing to go up, and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah your God,

And ye were rebelling against Jehovah from the day I knew you.

According to all the works which they did from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, and even to this day, and they will forsake me and serve other gods, so they do also to thee.

And Jehovah will speak to Manasseh, and to his people, and they attended not

We sinned with our fathers, we acted perversely, we did evil.

Behold, I gave thy face strong over against their face, and thy forehead strong over against their forehead.

And say to him, By what power doest thou these things? and who gave thee this power that thou doest these things ?

And his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We wish not this to reign over us.

Truly of sin, because they believe not in me;