Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Stiffnecked
Bible References
Stiffnecked
Exodus 32:9
The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people.
Exodus 33:3
Go up to a land [of abundance] flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
Exodus 34:9
And he said, “If now I have found favor and lovingkindness in Your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, please, go in our midst, though it is a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your possession.”
Deuteronomy 9:6
“Know [without any doubt], that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) people.
Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not stiffen your neck [becoming obstinate] like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and come to His sanctuary which He has sanctified and set apart forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that His burning anger will turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16
“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They stiffened their necks and would not heed Your commandments.
“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They stiffened their necks and would not heed Your commandments.
Psalm 75:5
‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”
‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”
Psalm 78:8
And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Isaiah 48:4
“Because I know that you are obstinate,
And your neck is an iron tendon
And your brow is bronze [both unyielding],
“Because I know that you are obstinate,
And your neck is an iron tendon
And your brow is bronze [both unyielding],
Jeremiah 17:23
Yet they would not listen and obey and control their behavior; but they were stiff-necked in order not to hear and take instruction.
Ezekiel 2:4
I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen and pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder [stiffening themselves in resistance] and stopped up their ears.
Resist
Acts 6:10
But they were not able to successfully withstand and cope with the wisdom and the intelligence [and the power and inspiration] of the Spirit by whom he was speaking.
Nehemiah 9:30
“Yet You were patient with them for many years,
And admonished them and warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets;
Still they would notlisten.
Therefore You gave them into the hand (power) of the peoples of the lands.
“Yet You were patient with them for many years,
And admonished them and warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets;
Still they would not
Therefore You gave them into the hand (power) of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He changed into their enemy,
And He fought against them.
But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He changed into their enemy,
And He fought against them.
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him], by whom you were sealed and marked [branded as God’s own] for the day of redemption [the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].
As
Acts 7:9
“The [ten elder] patriarchs, overwhelmed with jealousy, sold [their younger brother] Joseph into [slavery in] Egypt; but God was with him,
Matthew 23:31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
General references
Deuteronomy 1:26
“Yet you were not willing to go up [to take possession of it], but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebellious against the Lord from the [first] day that I knew you.
1 Samuel 8:8
Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.
2 Chronicles 33:10
Now the Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
Ezekiel 3:8
Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Mark 11:28
and began saying to Him, “By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?”
Luke 19:14 But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’
John 16:9 about sin [and the true nature of it], because they do not believe in Me [and My message];