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

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Bible References

Stiffnecked

And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

And he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

"Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

"But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.'"

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

Resist

But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

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"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?"

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;