10 Bible Verses about Stiffnecked People
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for they were so stupid, they did not comprehend the miracle of the loaves.
said, why do you trouble your heads about your having no bread? are you yet so void of sense, and understanding? are your minds so blinded?
and hardned their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."
stubborn people, whose hearts and ears like the uncircumcised, are always averse to the holy spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. was there ever any prophet whom your fathers did not persecute? have they not slain those who predicted the coming of that just person whom you have so lately betrayed and murder'd?
At length Paul went to the synagogue, where he spoke with great freedom, and for three months he conferr'd with them to persuade them of the truth of the evangelical kingdom. but some of them being such obdurate infidels as to inveigh against the institution before the populace, he retired, and taking the disciples with him, he instructed them daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
for 'tis said in scripture to Pharaoh, "even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth." thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit.
but exhort one another daily while the day lasts, lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin. for we were receiv'd into the communion of Christ, upon condition of inviolably maintaining the hope we had at the beginning even unto the end, which is imply'd by, "to-day since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as at Meriba."read more.
for some when they had heard his voice, did provoke him: however, not all that were brought out of Egypt by Moses did so. but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert? and who were they, who, he sware, should not enter into his rest, but those that did not believe? so we see that they could not enter in, because of their incredulity.
he pointed out another time in the words, which were spoken by David, a long time after their going into Canaan, in the passage just now quoted, "today since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
As for the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of their evil actions, so as to forbear worshipping demons, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk: nor did they repent of their murders, of their poisoning, of their brutality, nor of their robberys.
