10 Bible Verses about Stiffnecked People

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

"He has made their eyes blind and their minds dull, To keep them from seeing with their eyes, and understanding with their minds, And turning to me to be cured."

You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did! Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

He went to the synagogue there, and for three months spoke confidently, holding discussions and trying to persuade them about the Kingdom of God. But as some of them were obstinate and refused to believe, finding fault with the Way before the people, he left them, and withdrew the disciples, and held daily discussions in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

The Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for the very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, and making my name known all over the world." So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases.

Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert,

but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin. For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end. So while we can still speak of Today, if you hear him speak, do not harden your hearts, as they provoked him by doing.read more.
For who was it that heard him speak and yet provoked him? Was it not all those who had escaped from Egypt under Moses' leadership? And who was it with whom God was angry forty whole years? Was it not with those who had sinned, who dropped dead in the desert? And who was it to whom God made oath that they should not be admitted to his Rest, if it was not to those who had disobeyed him? So we see that it was their unbelief that kept them from being admitted to it.

he again fixes a new Today, saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "If you hear his voice today, Do not harden your hearts!"

Yet what was left of mankind, those who escaped being killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshiping demons and gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wooden idols, which cannot either see or hear or move, and they did not repent of their murders, or their magic arts, or their immorality, or their thefts.