Stubbornness

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. — read the full passage →

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

for a sin of divination <FI>is<Fi> rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim <FI>is<Fi> stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from <FI>being<Fi> king.'

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers--also ye;

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,

Be ye not as a horse--as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it <FI>is<Fi> a stiff-necked people;

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God <FI>is<Fi> its spirit.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

`And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'

And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

Hearken unto Me, ye mighty in heart, Who are far from righteousness.

and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear-- — read the full passage →

And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

It <FI>is<Fi> the appearance of the likeness of the honour of Jehovah, and I see, and fall on my face, and I hear a voice speaking, and He saith unto me, `Son of man, stand on thy feet, and I speak with thee.' — read the full passage →

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they--they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, --which man doth and hath lived in them--and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

and why hast thou not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah--and dost fly unto the spoil, and dost do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah?' — read the full passage →

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

Saying diligently to those despising The word of Jehovah: Peace is for you, And <FI>to<Fi> every one walking in the stubbornness of his heart they have said: Evil doth not come in unto you.

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

`The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah--we are not hearkening unto thee;

`Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens; — read the full passage →

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they walk each in the stubbornness of their evil heart, And I bring on them all the words of this covenant, That I commanded to do, and they did not.'

And thou hast said unto them: This <FI>is<Fi> the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.

Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah--He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.

Before destruction <FI>is<Fi> pride, And before stumbling--a haughty spirit.'

yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou <FI>art<Fi> a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he hath rebelled, who had caused him to swear by God, and he hardeneth his neck, and strengtheneth his heart, against turning back unto Jehovah, God of Israel.

And the word of the king is severe towards Joab, and against the heads of the force, and Joab goeth out, and the heads of the force, <FI>from<Fi> before the king to inspect the people, even Israel;

and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Harden not your heart as <FI>in<Fi> Meribah, As <FI>in<Fi> the day of Massah in the wilderness,

`And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

`And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, --then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince.

`He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

in the ninth year of Hoshea hath the king of Asshur captured Samaria, and removeth Israel to Asshur, and causeth them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, <FI>by<Fi> the river Gozan, and <FI>in<Fi> the cities of the Medes. — read the full passage →

for I--I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.

and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou <FI>art<Fi> Jehovah my God.

and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

`And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it <FI>is<Fi> ;

and saith, `If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it <FI>is<Fi> a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'

yea, it cometh to pass, when Pharaoh hath been pained to send us away, that Jehovah doth slay every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man even unto the first-born of beast; therefore I am sacrificing to Jehovah all opening a womb who <FI>are<Fi> males, and every first-born of my sons I ransom;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: --I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, I have wearied myself <FI>for<Fi> God, and am consumed. — read the full passage →

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident. — read the full passage →

Noisy she <FI>is<Fi> , and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, — read the full passage →

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have looked after that which Amalek did to Israel, that which he laid for him in the way in his going up out of Egypt.

And the people refuse to hearken to the voice of Samuel, and say, `Nay, but a king is over us,

And it hath come to pass, at the death of the judge--they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.

`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, — read the full passage →

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

`Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him--and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

The Song of Songs, that <FI>is<Fi> Solomon's. — read the full passage →

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →