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

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

He said, "If I've found favor in your sight, Lord, please, Lord, walk among us. Certainly this is an obstinate people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your own inheritance."

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

because indeed I know your rebellion and stubbornness. Note that even while I'm still alive, you've been rebelling against the LORD how much more so after my death!

So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you.

"But they our ancestors became arrogant and stubborn, refusing to listen to your commands.

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They were determined not to listen and not to accept instruction.

They're stubborn and strong willed. I'm sending you to them to tell them what the LORD says.

But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.

Resist

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

You were patient with them for many years, warning them by your Spirit through your prophets. But they would not listen, so you turned them over to the control of people in other lands.

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

As

"Joseph's brothers became jealous of him and sold Joseph as a slave in Egypt. However, God was with him

Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

General references

"However, your ancestors didn't go up. Instead, they rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I knew you.

Like all the things they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this very day, they have forsaken me and followed other gods. They're also doing the same thing to you.

The LORD kept on speaking to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention to him,

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

So pay attention! I'm going to make you just as obstinate and unyielding as they are.

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

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

of sin, because they don't believe in me;