Romans 10:21
But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and self-willed (obstinate). (Isaiah 65:1, 2)
Deuteronomy 9:13
Jehovah spoke further to me: 'I have seen this people. They are a very 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?
1 Samuel 8:7-8
Jehovah answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.
Proverbs 1:24
I called you! I stretched out my hand to you. You paid no attention to me.
Isaiah 65:2-5
All day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations (thoughts),
Jeremiah 25:4
Jehovah has sent all his servants the prophets to you. Yet, you have not listened or paid attention to them.
Jeremiah 35:15
I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said: Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and do not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.
Jeremiah 44:4-6
I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.
Matthew 20:1-15
The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:33-43
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
Matthew 22:3-7
He sent out his servants to invite guests to the feast, but they would not come.
Matthew 23:34-37
Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.
Luke 24:47
Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Acts 7:51-52
You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.
Acts 13:46-47
Paul and Barnabas became very bold, and said: It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you. But seeing you reject it you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life! Therefore we turn to the people of the nations.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
1 Peter 2:8
It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed.