Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Stiffnecked

Exodus 32:9
Jehovah added: I have seen these people. They have an iron sinew (stiff necked people) (are impossible to deal with).
Exodus 33:3
Go to that land flowing with milk and honey. I will not be with you, because you are impossible to deal with. I would probably destroy you on the way.
Exodus 34:9
He prayed: Jehovah, if you really are pleased with me, I pray that you will go with us. It is true that these people are sinful and rebellious. However, please forgive our sin and let us be your people.
Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand this! It is not because you have been living right that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are a rebellious and impossible (stiff-necked) (stubborn) people!
Deuteronomy 31:27
I know how rebellious you are. You are impossible to deal with. While I am alive and still with you, you are rebelling against Jehovah. How much more rebellious will you be after I die?
2 Chronicles 30:8
Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.
Psalm 75:5
Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with insolent pride.
Psalm 78:8
They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Isaiah 48:4
I knew that you would prove to be stubborn. You were as rigid as iron and unyielding as copper.
Jeremiah 17:23
Yet they did not listen or incline their ears. They stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.
Ezekiel 2:4
I am sending you to these defiant and stubborn children. Tell them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:
Zechariah 7:11
They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Resist

Acts 6:10
They were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.
Nehemiah 9:30
You put up with them for years. You admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they did not listen. So you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved (offended and hurt) his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.
Ephesians 4:30
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which (Greek: en hos) (in which) (Greek: hos, he ho) (whereby) (which) you were sealed to the day of release by ransom.

As

Acts 7:9
The family heads were jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. However, God was with him.
Matthew 23:31
You witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

General references

Deuteronomy 1:26
Even so they were not willing to go. They rebelled against the command of Jehovah your God:
Deuteronomy 9:24
You have rebelled against Jehovah from the day I knew you.
1 Samuel 8:8
Ever since the day I rescued my people from Egypt, they have turned from me to worship idols. Now they are turning away from you.
2 Chronicles 33:10
Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and his people. But they would not pay attention.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.
Ezekiel 3:8
Yet, I will make you as stubborn and as hardheaded as they are.
Mark 11:28
They said to him: By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you authority to do these things?
Luke 19:14
His citizens hated him. They sent a spokesman to him saying we do not want this man to rule us.
John 16:9
First of sin because they do not practice active faith in me.