5 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

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

It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

again he defines a certain day, To-day, saying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you may be hardened by the deception of sin;

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,