Nehemiah 9:16-17
16“But they and our fathers aacted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17They refused to obey band 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. But you are a God ready to forgive, cgracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.Nehemiah 9:28
28 dBut 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, eand many times you delivered them according to your mercies.Psalms 75:5
5do not lift up your horn on high,or speak with haughty neck.’”
Proverbs 29:1
1 fHe who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,will suddenly be gbroken hbeyond healing.
Jeremiah 7:26
26 iYet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, jbut stiffened their neck. kThey did worse than their fathers.Jeremiah 19:15
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, lbecause they have stiffened their neck, mrefusing to hear my words.”Zechariah 7:12
12 nThey made their hearts diamond-hard olest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent pby his Spirit through qthe former prophets. rTherefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.Acts 7:51
51 s“You stiff-necked people, tuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. uAs your fathers did, so do you.
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