8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

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

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of 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 in 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, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

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 imagination of their evil heart.