8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Do not harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

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

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

he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

At that time they shall call Jerusalem 'The throne of the LORD;' and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.