8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your hearts, and be no longer stiff-necked.

Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

Again he appointeth in David a certain present day after so long a time, saying as it is rehearsed, "This day if ye hear his voice, be not hard hearted."

but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you wax hard hearted through the deceitfulness of sin.

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

Then shall Jerusalem be called the LORD's seat, and all Heathen shall be gathered unto it, for the name of the LORD's sake, which shall be set up at Jerusalem. And from that time forth, they shall follow no more the imagination of their own froward heart.