40 Bible Verses about Self Will

I told you, but you would not listen. You disobeyed Jehovah's command and proudly invaded the mountainous region.

He said: This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and, this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen.

The Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, says: Return to me and be saved. You can have rest. You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me. But you do not want that!

His citizens hated him. They sent a spokesman to him saying we do not want this man to rule us.

This is primarily for those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble at glorious ones but speak abusively.

After a song of praise to God they went to the Mount of Olives. Jesus told them: You would all be turned away from me. It is written, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight. After I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.read more.
Peter declared to him: Even though all shall leave you I will not. Jesus said to Peter: I tell you that before the rooster crows twice tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me. Peter answered even more strongly: I will never say that, even if I have to die with you! All the other disciples said the same thing.

Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with insolent pride.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

I knew that you would prove to be stubborn. You were as rigid as iron and unyielding as copper.

I called you! I stretched out my hand to you. You paid no attention to me.

But the people refused to listen to Samuel. They said: We want a king!

We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of Jehovah.

They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Who gave Israel up to the looters? It was Jehovah, against whom we sinned! We would not live as he wanted us to live or obey the teachings he gave us.

They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him,

Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

You will say to them: 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God or accept correction. Truth has perished and truth has been removed from their mouth.

I know how rebellious you are. You are impossible to deal with. While I am alive and still with you, you are rebelling against Jehovah. How much more rebellious will you be after I die?

They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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

They keep saying to those who despise me, Jehovah says: 'Everything will go well for you.' They tell all who live by their own stubborn ways: 'Nothing bad will happen to you.'

The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.

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.

The Holy Spirit says: Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts and be stubborn like those who tested me in the day of temptation in the wilderness. Your forefathers examined (inspected) (scrutinized) me by proving (testing) me. And they saw my works for forty years.read more.
I was disgusted (angry) with this generation, and said: 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.' So I swore in my anger: 'They will not enter into my rest.' Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.

He prayed: Jehovah, if you really are pleased with me, I pray that you will go with us. It is true that these people are sinful and rebellious. However, please forgive our sin and let us be your people.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

She is loud and rebellious and never stays at home.

When the judge was dead they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers. They followed other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.

He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Do not be stubborn like a horse or mule. They need a bit and bridle in their mouth to restrain them, or they will not come near you.

I hear the people of Israel say in grief, 'Jehovah, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back for we are ready to return to you, Jehovah our God.

I will not join in their secret talks. I will not take part in their meetings. They killed people in anger. They crippled bulls for sport.

Jehovah added: I have seen these people. They have an iron sinew (stiff necked people) (are impossible to deal with).

Understand this! It is not because you have been living right that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are a rebellious and impossible (stiff-necked) (stubborn) people!

Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you pounce on the plunder? Why did you do evil in the sight of Jehovah? Then Saul said to Samuel: I did obey the voice of Jehovah. I went on the mission Jehovah sent me. I brought back Agag the king of Amalek. I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. The people took from the plunder of the flock the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.read more.
Samuel said: What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams. The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.

The king made Joab and his officers obey his order. They left his presence and went out to count the people of Israel.