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 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and, indeed, they [are] a stiff-necked people.

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

And he said, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord, please, go among us--indeed it is a stiff-necked people--and forgive our iniquity and our sin and {take us as your possession}."

"So you should understand that [it is] not because of your righteousness [that] Yahweh your God [is] giving you this good land to take possession of it, because {you are a stubborn people}.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck [even now] while I [am] still alive with you {today}, rebelling against Yahweh, and {how much more} after my death.

Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers, but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

"But they and our ancestors acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments.

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

because {I know} that you [are] obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck [so as] to not hear, nor to receive discipline.

And the children [are] {impudent} and {stubborn}, [and so] I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'

But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder and {stopped their ears from listening}.

Resist

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands.

But they {were the ones who} rebelled, and they grieved {his Holy Spirit}, so he {became an enemy to them}; he himself fought against them.

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

As

And the patriarchs, [because they] were jealous of Joseph, sold [him] into Egypt. And God was with him,

Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

General references

But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command} of Yahweh your God.

You have been rebellious toward Yahweh {from the day I have known you}.

Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods--so they [are] doing to you also.

And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not listen.

We have sinned [along] with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.

[But] look, I have made your face hard {against} their faces and your forehead hard {against} their forehead.

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

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

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me,