Thematic Bible: Self-will and stubbornness
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to walk in the ways of God
So says Jehovah, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
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They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His Law.
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And they refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.
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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to receive correction
O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.
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If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,
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But you shall say to them, This is a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified
And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Therefore, understand that Jehovah your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness. For you are a stiff-necked people.
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And Jehovah spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.
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But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, No, but we will have a king over us.
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As for the Word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not listen to you.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Forbidden
harden not your heart, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness;
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do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck.
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And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Punishment for
A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So shall you put evil away from you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Pray that their people may be forgiven for
And he said, If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Jehovah, I pray You, let my Lord go among us. For it is a stiff-necked people. And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.
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Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Walking in the counsels of an evil heart
But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
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They still say to those who despise Me, Jehovah has said, You shall have peace! And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come on you!
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Rebelling against God
and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.
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For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Jehovah. And how much more after my death?
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Self-will and stubbornness » Proceed from » Pride
and testified against them that You might bring them again to Your Law. But they acted proudly and did not listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
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But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commandments.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Characteristic of the wicked
and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.
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She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay in her house;
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Self-will and stubbornness » Illustrated
I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.
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Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to parents
If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Hardening the heart
And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified » Zedekiah
And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified » Josiah
But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him. And he did not listen to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified » saul
Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you fly on the spoil and do evil in the sight of Jehovah? And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have completely destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took from the spoil, of the flocks and herd, the best of the things devoted to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal. read more.
And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams! For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!
And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams! For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Warn their people against
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. read more.
Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest." Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest." Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Self-will and stubbornness » Heinousness of
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to God
Because I called, and you refused; I stretched out my hand, and no one paid attention;
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Hardening the neck
But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commandments.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Going backward and not forward
But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Proceed from » An evil heart
But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Proceed from » Unbelief
But they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified » David
But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the commanders of the army. And Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exemplified » Simeon and levi
Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.
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Self-will and stubbornness » The wicked cease not from
And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.
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Self-will and stubbornness » God knows
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow bronze.
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Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Be without
For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;
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Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Resisting the holy ghost
O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.
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