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 the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, I see this people, that it is a stiffnecked people,

that thou mayest go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way."

and said, "If I have found grace in thy sight O Lord, then let my Lord go with us - for it is a stubborn people. And have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine inheritance."

Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness' sake, that the LORD thy God doth give thee this good land to possess it, for thou art a stiff-necked people.

For I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my death.

Wherefore, be not stiff-necked like unto your fathers, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and come to his holy place which he hath sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his wrath may turn from you.

But our fathers were proud, and hard necked, so that they followed not thy commandments,

Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck."

And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

Howbeit, I knew that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an iron vein, and thy brow is of brass.

Howbeit, they obeyed me not, neither hearkened they unto me: but were obstinate and stubborn, and neither obeyed me, nor received my correction.

Yea, I will send thee unto a people that have rough visages and stiff stomachs: unto whom thou shalt say on this manner, 'This the LORD God himself hath spoken,'

Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Resist

And they could not resist the wisdom, and the spirit, with which he spake.

And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands.

But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.

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

As

And the patriarchs, having indignation, sold Joseph into Egypt, and God was with him,

So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets.

General references

Notwithstanding, ye would not consent to go up, but were disobedient unto the mouth of the LORD your God,

Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the day that I knew you.

And as they have ever done - since I brought them out of Egypt unto this day, and have forsaken me and served other gods - even so do they unto thee.

And when the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people, they attended not to him.

We have sinned with our fathers; we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly.

Behold, therefore, I will make thy face prevail against their faces, and harden thy forehead against their foreheads;

and said unto him, "By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority, to do these things?"

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

Of sin, because they believe not on me: