5 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

harden not your hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in the wilderness;

while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.

again he limiteth a certain day, saying by David, To-day, after so long a time; as it is said, "To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts."

but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains, that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;