Acts 7:51

Resisting The Holy Spirit

⁵⁰ Did not my hand make all these things? ⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. ⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

Holy Spirit

Stiff-Necked People

Uncircumcised In Heart

Leviticus 26:41

So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,

Deuteronomy 10:16

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

Exodus 32:9

And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 33:5

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.

Exodus 33:3

Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

Isaiah 63:10

But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.

Jeremiah 4:4

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

Nehemiah 9:30

Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

Psalm 78:8

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

Ezekiel 44:7

To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

Ezekiel 44:9

For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.

Acts 6:10

But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

Acts 7:9

And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

Acts 7:27

But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7:39

By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

Romans 2:25

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

Romans 2:28-29

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

Ephesians 4:30

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

Exodus 34:9

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 9:6

Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:13

And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

Nehemiah 9:16

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

Psalm 75:5

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

Jeremiah 9:25-26

See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

Jeremiah 17:23

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

Ezekiel 2:4

And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

Zechariah 7:11-12

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Matthew 23:31-33

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

Acts 7:35

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

Colossians 2:11

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;