Acts 7:51

Resisting The Holy Spirit

⁵⁰ Did my hand not make all these things?' ⁵¹ "You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did! ⁵² Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

Holy Spirit

Stiff-Necked People

Uncircumcised In Heart

Leviticus 26:41

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

Exodus 32:9

Then the Lord said to Moses: "I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.'"

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way."

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

Jeremiah 4:4

Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment, you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done."

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Deuteronomy 31:27

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death!

Nehemiah 9:30

You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

Psalm 78:8

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

Ezekiel 44:7

When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it -- even my house -- when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.

Acts 6:10

Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

Acts 7:9

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

Acts 7:27

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

Acts 7:39

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

Romans 2:25

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:28-29

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

Ephesians 4:30

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

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

Exodus 34:9

and said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."

Deuteronomy 9:6

Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

Deuteronomy 9:13

Moreover, he said to me, "I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now, don't be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

Nehemiah 9:16

"But they -- our ancestors -- behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

Psalm 75:5

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

Isaiah 48:4

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Jeremiah 9:25-26

The Lord says, "Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.

Jeremiah 17:23

Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.'

Ezekiel 2:4

The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says.'

Zechariah 7:11-12

"But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

Matthew 23:31-33

By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Acts 7:35

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Colossians 2:11

In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.