Thematic Bible: Self-will
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Saul, king of israel » The man who lost a crown characteristics of » Self-will
therefore I said, Now the Philistines will come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of LORD. I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou have done foolishly. Thou have not kept the commandment of LORD thy God, which he commanded thee. For now LORD would have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever,
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
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But the people refused to hearken to 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 thou have spoken to us in the name of LORD, we will not hearken to thee.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to walk in the ways of God
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law.
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and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou did among them, but stiffened their neck. And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious a
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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not LORD? He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, nor were they obedient to his law.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Walking in the counsels of an evil heart
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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They say continually to those who despise me, LORD has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to receive correction
O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused t
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If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them,
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And thou shall say to them, This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice of LORD their God, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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Self-will » Exemplified » The israelites
And LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Know therefore, that LORD thy God does not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness, for thou are a stiff-necked people.
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Furthermore LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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Self-will » Illustrated
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.
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Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Rebelling against God
and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
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For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against LORD, and how much more after my death?
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Self-will » Characteristic of wicked people
And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities.
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She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.
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Self-will » Punishment for
He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
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And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
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Self-will » Forbidden
Lift not up your horn on high. Speak not with a stiff neck.
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Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
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Self-will » Servants should » Pray that the people may be forgiven for
And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
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Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their profaneness, nor to their sin,
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Self-will » Exemplified » King saul
Why then did thou not obey the voice of LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of LORD? And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of LORD, and have gone the way which LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to LORD thy God in Gilgal. read more.
And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou have rejected the word of LORD, he has also rejected thee from being king.
And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou have rejected the word of LORD, he has also rejected thee from being king.
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to (obey) parents
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken 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 » Servants should » Warn the people against
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if ye hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, according to the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years. read more.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways. So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest. Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They are always led astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways. So I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest. Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.
Self-will » Proceeds from » Pride
and testified against them, that thou might bring them again to thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and did not hearken to thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), and withdre
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck, and did not hearken to thy commandments,
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Self-will » Proceeds from » Unbelief
Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers who did not believed in LORD their God.
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Self-will » 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 against turning to LORD, the God of Israel.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Heinousness of
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou have rejected the word of LORD, he has also rejected thee from being king.
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Self-will » 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 against turning to LORD, the God of Israel.
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Self-will » Exemplified » Josiah
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him. And he did not hearken to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Self-will » Proceeds from » An evil heart
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Going backward and not forward
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
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Self-will » Exemplified » David
Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.
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Self-will » God knows
Because I knew that thou are obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
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Self-will » Servants should » Be without
For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Hardening the neck (metaphorically)
But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck, and did not hearken to thy commandments,
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Resisting the holy spirit
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.
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Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to God
Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,
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Self-will » Exemplified » Simeon and levi
O my soul, come not thou into their council, to their assembly, my glory, be not thou united, for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked an ox.
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Self-will » The wicked do not cease from
But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their doings, nor from their
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