Isaiah 48:4
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4 Because I know that (A)you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew
and your forehead brass,
Acts 7:51
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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.
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Exodus 32:9
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9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, (A)it is a stiff-necked people.
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Proverbs 29:1
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29 (A)He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
will suddenly be (B)broken (C)beyond healing.
Zechariah 7:11-12
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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Deuteronomy 31:27
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27 For I know how rebellious and (A)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, (B)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!
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Hebrews 3:13
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13 But (A)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by (B)the deceitfulness of sin.
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Romans 2:5
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5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Jeremiah 19:15
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15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, (A)because they have stiffened their neck, (B)refusing to hear my words.”
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Isaiah 46:12
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12 “Listen to me, you stubborn of heart,
you who are far from righteousness:
2 Chronicles 36:13
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13 (A)He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. (B)He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Exodus 33:5
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5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a (A)stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would (B)consume you. So now (C)take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”
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Exodus 33:3
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3 (A)Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; (B)but I will not go up among you, (C)lest I consume you on the way, for you are a (D)stiff-necked people.”
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Daniel 5:20
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20 But (A)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, (B)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.
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Ezekiel 3:4-9
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4 And he said to me, (A)“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. (B)Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7 (C)But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel (D)have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. 8 (E)Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 Like (F)emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. (G)Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
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Jeremiah 7:26
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26 (A)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (B)but stiffened their neck. (C)They did worse than their fathers.
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Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
Jeremiah 3:3
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3 (A)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (B)the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
Psalm 78:8
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8 and that they should not be (A)like their fathers,
(B)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (C)whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 75:5
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5 do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.’”
Nehemiah 9:16-17
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16 “But they and our fathers (A)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey (B)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, (C)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
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- Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery
2 Chronicles 30:8
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8 (A)Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, (B)that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
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2 Kings 17:14
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14 But they would not listen, (A)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
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Deuteronomy 10:16
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16 Circumcise therefore (A)the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer (B)stubborn.
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Nehemiah 9:28
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28 (A)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, (B)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.
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