8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck. (Circumcise: Cut short the foreskin.) (Remove hardness of the heart.)

Do not harden your hearts, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness.

do not harden your hearts and be stubborn like those who tested me in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

Scripture says: Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Do not be stubborn like those who rebelled.

He determines a certain day by saying through David: Today, after so long a time; just as it was said before, Today, if you will listen to his voice, do not harden your hearts. (Psalm 95:7)

Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain.

At that time, they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah. All nations will gather in Jerusalem because the name of Jehovah will be found there. They will no longer follow their own stubborn, evil ways.