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

General references

Bible References

Stiffnecked

The LORD further said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and for certain it is a stiffnecked people.

Unto the 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 grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us, for this is a stiffnecked people, and forgive our iniquity and our sin and possess us.

Understand, therefore, that the LORD thy God does not give thee this good land to inherit because of 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 today, ye are rebels against the LORD, and how much more after my death?

Therefore, do not be stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and did not hearken unto thy commandments

Do not lift 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 did not set their heart aright and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Because I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow bronze;

who did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive correction.

And to sons that have hard faces and strong hearts do I send thee; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said.

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

Resist

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

Yet many years didst thou forbear them and didst protest against them with thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets; yet they did not hear; therefore, thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the land.

But they were rebels and angered his holy Spirit; therefore, he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

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

As

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

General references

Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;

Ye have been rebels against the LORD 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, with which they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do unto thee.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.

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

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

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

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

of sin, because they do not believe in me;