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 saith unto Moses, 'I have seen this people, and lo, it is a stiff-necked people;

unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'

and saith, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it is a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'

and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou art.

for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.

'Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

'And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,

And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.

And the sons are brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

Resist

and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;

'And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,

And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

As

and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

General references

'And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,

rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.

According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,

We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

'Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

and they say to him, 'By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?'

and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.

concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;