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

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.

And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.

Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

For I know your rebellion, and your stubbornness: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

But they and our fathers acted presumptuously, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to your commandments,

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.

But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Resist

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.

Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore you gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

As

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them who killed the prophets.

General references

Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, with which they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto you.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

And said unto him, By what authority do you these things? and who gave you this authority to do these things?

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

Of sin, because they believe not on me;