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

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Bible References

Stiffnecked

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

to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.

And he said, If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Jehovah, I pray You, let my Lord go among us. For it is a stiff-necked people. And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.

Therefore, understand that Jehovah your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness. For you are a stiff-necked people.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Jehovah. And how much more after my death?

And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commandments.

do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck.

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

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

But they did not obey, nor bowed down their ear, but made their neck stiff, so that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

And the sons are stiff of face, and hard of heart. I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.

But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.

Resist

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

And many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets, but they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

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

As

And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;

General references

But you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Jehovah your God.

You have been rebellious against Jehovah 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 until this day, works with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods, so they do also to you.

And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen.

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

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

and said to Him, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority to do these things?

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

Concerning sin, because they do not believe on Me;