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

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Bible References

Stiffnecked

And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee on the way.

and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance!

Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.

for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death!

Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.

But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,

but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.

Resist

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

As

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

General references

But ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God;

Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

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

And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken.

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

Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.

and they say to him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority, that thou shouldest do these things?

But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this man should reign over us.

of sin, because they do not believe on me;