8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stiff-necked.

harden not your heart, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness;

do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."

He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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;

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. Nor shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.