Acts 7:51

Resisting The Holy Spirit

⁵⁰ It was my hand that made all these things, wasn't it?'" ⁵¹ "You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do. ⁵² Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Holy Spirit

Stiff-Necked People

Uncircumcised In Heart

Leviticus 26:41

causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, circumcise your heart and stop being stubborn.

Exodus 32:9

Then the LORD told Moses, "I've seen these people and indeed they're obstinate.

Exodus 33:5

The LORD had told Moses, "Say to the Israelis, "You are an obstinate people, and if for one moment I went up among you, I would put an end to you. Now take off your ornaments so I may decide what to do with you.'"

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

Isaiah 63:10

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD and remove the foreskin of your heart, you men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to put it out, because of your evil deeds."

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom will I speak and give a warning so they'll listen? Look, their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. Look, this message from the LORD is contemptible to them; they don't delight in it.

Deuteronomy 31:27

because indeed I know your rebellion and stubbornness. Note that even while I'm still alive, you've been rebelling against the LORD how much more so after my death!

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years, warning them by your Spirit through your prophets. But they would not listen, so you turned them over to the control of people in other lands.

Psalm 78:8

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

Ezekiel 44:7

You kept on bringing in foreigners, those who were uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to profane my sanctuary by being inside my Temple, and by doing so you've emptied my covenant, all the while offering my food the fat and the blood in addition to all of the other loathsome things you've done.

Ezekiel 44:9

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "No foreigner who is both uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the Israelis is to enter my sanctuary.

Acts 6:10

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

Acts 7:9

"Joseph's brothers became jealous of him and sold Joseph as a slave in Egypt. However, God was with him

Acts 7:27

"But the man who was harming his neighbor pushed Moses away and said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us?

Acts 7:39

but our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and wished to return to Egypt.

Romans 2:25

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised.

Romans 2:28-29

For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical.

Ephesians 4:30

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcision we who worship in the Spirit of God and find our joy in the Messiah Jesus. We have not placed any confidence in the flesh,

Exodus 34:9

He said, "If I've found favor in your sight, Lord, please, Lord, walk among us. Certainly this is an obstinate people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your own inheritance."

Deuteronomy 9:6

Know that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stubborn people."

Deuteronomy 9:13

"Then the LORD told me, "I have examined this people, and they are stubborn indeed.

Deuteronomy 30:6

Then the LORD your God will circumcise both your hearts and those of your descendants so that you can love him with your heart and with your soul and therefore live.

2 Chronicles 30:8

So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you.

Nehemiah 9:16

"But they our ancestors became arrogant and stubborn, refusing to listen to your commands.

Psalm 75:5

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

Isaiah 48:4

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

Jeremiah 9:25-26

"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh:

Jeremiah 17:23

But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They were determined not to listen and not to accept instruction.

Ezekiel 2:4

They're stubborn and strong willed. I'm sending you to them to tell them what the LORD says.

Zechariah 7:11-12

But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.

Matthew 23:31-33

Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Acts 7:35

"This same Moses whom they rejected by saying, "Who made you ruler and judge?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

Colossians 2:11

In union with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without human hands by stripping off the corrupt nature by the circumcision performed by the Messiah.