Neh 9:29, Jer 8:5, Hos 4:16, Heb 10:38-39 | ESV | STEP | And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law . Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments , but sinned against your rules , which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey .

a[See ver. 26 above]

Nehemiah 9:29

29 ^aAnd you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet ^bthey acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, ^cwhich if a person does them, he shall live by them, ^dand they turned a stubborn shoulder ^eand stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Jeremiah 8:5

5 Why then has this people ^fturned away
in perpetual ^gbacksliding?
^hThey hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.

Hosea 4:16

16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Hebrews 10:38-39

38 ⁱbut my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.