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- 1 Samuel 15:23 (NIV) – “For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”
- Deuteronomy 9:6 (NIV) – “Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
- Jeremiah 7:24 (NIV) – “But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.”
- Proverbs 28:14 (NIV) – “Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.”
- Romans 2:5 (NIV) – “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.”
- Isaiah 65:2 (NIV) – “All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations.”
- Nehemiah 9:29 (NIV) – “You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.”
- Deuteronomy 31:27 (NIV) – “For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!”
- Zechariah 7:11-12 (NIV) – “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.”
- Psalm 81:11-12 (NIV) – “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.”
- Proverbs 29:1 (NIV) – “Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.”
- Deuteronomy 10:16 (NIV) – “Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.”
- Acts 7:51 (NIV) – “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!”
- 2 Kings 17:14 (NIV) – “But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God.”
- Exodus 32:9 (NIV) – “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people.”
- Isaiah 48:4 (NIV) – “For I knew how stubborn you were; your neck muscles were iron, your forehead was bronze.”
- Jeremiah 5:23 (NIV) – “But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.”
- Hosea 4:16 (NIV) – “The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow?”
