24 Bible Verses about Stubbornness

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Numbers 14:40-45

And they will rise early in the morning, and will go up to the head of the mountain, saying, Behold us, and we will go up to the place which Jehovah said: for we sinned. And Moses will say, Wherefore this you are passing by the mouth of Jehovah? And it shall not prosper. Ye shall not go up, for Jehovah is not in the midst of you; and shall ye not be struck before your enemies?read more.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye fell by the sword: for ye turned back from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will not be with you. And they will act proudly to go up to the head of the mountain: mid the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses departed not out of the midst of the camp. And Amalek came down, and the Canaanite, he dwelling in the mountain, and he will smite them, and will beat them, even to Hormah.

2 Kings 17:14

And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

Jeremiah 7:24

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.

Deuteronomy 21:18-20

If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them: And his father and his mother laid hold on him and brought him to the old men of his city, and to the gate of his place; And they said to the old men of of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he heard not to our voice; he is vile, and drinking to excess.

Nehemiah 9:16

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

Isaiah 48:4-8

From my knowledge that thou wert hard, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy forehead of brass: I will announce to thee from then; before it shall come I caused thee to hear, lest thou shalt say, My image did them; and my carved image, and my Molten image commanded them. Thou heardest, seeing it all; and will ye not announce? I caused thee to hear new things from now, and hidden things, and thou knewest them notread more.
Now were they created and not from then; and before the day and thou heardest them not; lest thou shalt say, Behold, I knew them. Also thou heardest not; also thou knewest not; also from then thine ear was not opened: for I knew, acting deceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and it was called to thee transgressing from the womb.

Jeremiah 44:16

The word which thou spakest to us in the name of Jehovah, we hear not to thee

Acts 15:36-40

And after certain days said Paul to Barnabas, Now having turned back, let us review our brethren in every city in which we announced the word of the Lord, how they hold. And Barnabas purposed to take with them John, called Mark. But Paul deemed worthy, having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and not having come with them to the work, not to take him with them.read more.
Therefore there was an incitement, so that they separated from one another: and Barnabas, having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus; And Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been delivered to the grace of God by the brethren.

Hebrews 3:7-12

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert: Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.read more.
Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.) See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

Genesis 49:5-6

Simon and Levi brethren; their swords instruments of violence. My soul shall not come into their consultation; in their assembly, my honor shall not be united, for in their anger they killed a man and in their will, houghed a bullock.

Exodus 32:9

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

1 Samuel 15:19-23

And wherefore didst thou not hear to the voice of Jehovah, and wilt clothe thyself with the spoil, and thou wilt do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah. And Saul will say to Samuel, That I heard to the voice of Jehovah, and I will go in the way which Jehovah sent me, and I will bring Agag king of Amalek, and I utterly destroyed Amalek. And the people will take from the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief devoted to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.read more.
And Samuel will say, Was it pleasing to Jehovah in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as to hear to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to hear, above a good sacrifice, and to hearken, above the fat of rams. For the sin of divination, rebellion; and deceit, and the family gods of stubbornness. Because thou didst reject the word of Jehovah, and he will reject thee from being king.

2 Samuel 24:4

And the king's word will be strong to Joab and to the chiefs of his army. And Joab went forth and the chiefs of his army before the king to review the people Israel.

Deuteronomy 10:16

And circumcise the uncircumcision of your heart, and ye shall no more harden your neck.

Deuteronomy 17:12

And the man which shall do in pride not to hear to the priest, he standing to serve there Jehovah thy God, or to the judge, and that man shall die: and put thou away evil from Israel

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

Jeremiah 11:8

And they heard not, and inclined not their ear, and they went a man in the stubbornness of their evil heart: and I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant which I commanded to do; and they did not

Zechariah 7:11-12

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing. And their heart they set a diamond from hearing the instruction and the words which Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there will be great wrath from Jehovah of armies.

Hebrews 4:7

Again he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after such time; as it is said, To day if ye would hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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Evil » Heart evil, characteristics of » Stubbornness

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

Heart » Evil, characteristics of » Stubbornness

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

Heart » Sinful » Stubbornness

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

Prayer » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness

Zechariah 7:13

And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:

Rebellion against God » Connected with » Stubbornness

Deuteronomy 31:27

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.

Sinful » Heart » Stubbornness

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

Stubbornness » Warnings against

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

Psalm 78:8

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.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear and if ye will not set upon your heart to give honor to my name, said Jehovah of armies, and I sent a curse upon you, and I cursed your blessings, and also I cursed it for your not setting upon the heart.

Isaiah 46:12

Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.

Stubbornness » What stubbornness is

The wicked » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness

Zechariah 7:13

And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:

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