23 Bible Verses about Obstinacy Against God

And Jehovah will say to Moses, I saw this people, and behold, it a people of a hard neck And thou be at rest to me, and my wrath shall kindle against them, and I will consume them: and I will make thee into a great nation.

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 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.

And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst: Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens.

And he will send prophets among them to turn them back to Jehovah; and they will testify against them: and they gave not ear.

And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land.

Happy the man fearing always: and he hardening his heart shall fall into evil

Shall the unjust be shown favor? He learnt not justice; in the land of justice he will act perversely, and he will not see the majesty of Jehovah. O Jehovah, high thy hand, they will not see: they shall see and be ashamed for their jealousy of the people; also the fire of thine enemies shall consume them.

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:

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

I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes. The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

In that time they shall call to Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all nations assembled together to her to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: and they shall no more go after the stubbornness of their evil heart

O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.

Thus said Jehovah, Stand ye upon the ways, and see, and ask for the beaten paths of old, where this the good way, and go ye in it, and find rest to your soul. And they will say, We will not go.

But this word I commanded them, saying, Hear to my voice, and I was to you for God, and in shall be to me for a people: and go in all the ways which I shall command you, so that it shall be well to you. And they heard not and inclined not their ear, and they went in the counsels in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they shall be for behind and not before. From the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt even to this day, and I will send to you all my servants the prophets, in the day rising early and sending:read more.
And they heard not to me and they inclined not their ear, and they will harden their neck: they did evil above their fathers.

I hearkened and I will hear, they shall not speak thus: no man lamented for his evil, saying, What did I? Every one turned back in his race as the horse rushing into battle.

Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Behold me bringing to this city and upon all her cities all the evil which I spake against her, because they hardened their neck not to hear my word.

Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.

For as a stubborn heifer Israel was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

And Jesus having known, says to them, Why reason ye with yourselves, because ye have no loaves? observe ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and remember ye not? When I brake the five loaves to five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.read more.
And when the seven to four thousand, the fillings of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said to them, How do ye not understand

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing. For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.read more.
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.