8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;

At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.