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

General references

Bible References

Stiffnecked

And the LORD 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 grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Understand therefore, that the LORD 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 the LORD; and how much more after my death?

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath 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 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 obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

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 spake.

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

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

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

As

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

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

General references

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

Ye have been rebellious 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, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

And the LORD spake 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 say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

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

Of sin, because they believe not on me;