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

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Acts 7:9

Matthew 23:31

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Bible References

Stiffnecked

And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way.

And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

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

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

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, 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 made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Resist

And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake.

Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

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And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

General references

Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:

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

According to all the works which 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 spake to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.

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 said unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?

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

of sin, because they believe not on me;