18 Bible Verses about Impenitence, Warnings Against

Israel, your arrogance testifies against you. Even after all this, you do not return to Jehovah your God or look to him for help.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine. Tell us now what you think.

Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.

You live in the middle of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says Jehovah.

Will they not return to Egypt and will not Assyria rule over them because they refuse to repent?

Therefore I will choose harsh treatment for them and bring on them what they fear. I called, but no one answered. I spoke, but they did not listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose what I do not like.

They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. They made their hearts hard like flint and would not listen to the law, and the words that Jehovah of Hosts sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Great anger came from Jehovah of Hosts!

They would not obey. They were stubborn like their ancestors. They did not trust in Jehovah their God.

Do not be like your fathers! The former prophets declared: 'Jehovah of Hosts said, I implore you, return from your evil ways, and from your wicked activities! But they did not listen, they paid no attention to me,' said Jehovah.

Since the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear. Instead they stiffened their neck (became stubborn). They did more evil than their fathers.

I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt. Even to this day I persistently warned them, saying: 'Listen to my voice.' Yet they did not obey or incline their ear (pay attention). They walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart! Therefore I brought on them all the words of the covenant I commanded them to do. But they did not do it.'

The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ears. They stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

Jehovah continued to speak his word to me for twenty-three years. This covered the time from when Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. Jehovah has sent all his servants the prophets to you. Yet, you have not listened or paid attention to them.

have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate. But you would not listen or pay any attention. You would not give up your evil practice of sacrificing to other gods.

Jehovah said to Moses: How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed many miracles among them?