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Bible Questions Answered:
“...many
of the people I talk to are stubborn in their beliefs...”
Stefan/
Frankfurt, Hesse Germany
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Obstinance:
Exodus
7:13,14,22 NLT
13
Pharaoh’s heart, however, remained hard. He still refused to
listen, just as The Lord had predicted.
14
Then The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn, and he
still refuses to let the people go.
22
But again the magicians of Egypt used their magic, and they, too,
turned water into blood. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard. He
refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as The Lord had predicted.
Exodus
34:8,9 KJV
8
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshiped.
9
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my
Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiff necked people; and
pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Deuteronomy 31:27 KJV (Moses)
For
I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against The Lord;
and how much more after my death?
I
Samuel 6:6 KJV
Wherefore
then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened
their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they
not let the people go, and they departed?
I
Samuel 15:19-23 NLT
19
Why haven’t you obeyed The Lord? Why did you rush for the plunder
and do what was evil in The Lord’s sight?”
20
“But I did obey The Lord,” Saul insisted. “I carried out the
mission He gave me. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed
everyone else.
21
Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep, goats, cattle, and
plunder to sacrifice to The Lord your God in Gilgal.”
22
But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to The Lord: your burnt
offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to His voice?
Listen!
Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than
offering the fat of rams.
23
Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as
worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of The
Lord, He has rejected you as king.”
II
Kings 17:14 KJV
Notwithstanding
they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of
their fathers, that did not believe in The Lord their God.
Nehemiah
9:17,29 KJV
17
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou
didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion
appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God
ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and forsookest them not.
29
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again
unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy
commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do,
he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their
neck, and would not hear.
Psalm
32:9 KJV
Be
ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near
unto thee.
Psalm
78:8,10 KJV
8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose
spirit was not steadfast with God.
10
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;
Psalm
81:11,12 KJV
11
But My people would not hearken to My voice; and Israel would none of
Me.
12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in
their own counsels.
Proverbs
12:15 KJV
The
way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto
counsel is wise.
Proverbs
14:12 KJV
There
is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death.
Proverbs
16:18 KJV
Pride
goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs
28:14 KJV
Happy
is the man that feareth always: but he that hardeneth his heart shall
fall into mischief.
Proverbs
29:1 KJV
He,
that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy.
Proverbs
30:12 KJV
There
is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not
washed from their filthiness.
Ecclesiastes
11:9 KJV
Rejoice,
O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days
of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight
of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will
bring thee into judgment.
Isaiah
46:12 KJV
Hearken
unto Me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Isaiah
48:4,5 NLT
4
For I know how stubborn and obstinate you are. Your necks are as
unbending as iron. Your heads are as hard as bronze.
5
That is why I told you what would happen; I told you beforehand what
I was going to do. Then you could never say, ‘My idols did it. My
wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!’
Jeremiah
5:3,23 KJV
3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon The Truth? thou hast stricken them,
but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than
a rock; they have refused to return.
23
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are
revolted and gone.
Jeremiah
6:16 KJV
Thus
saith The Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find
rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah
7:24,26 NLT
24
“But My people would not listen to Me. They kept doing whatever
they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts.
They went backward instead of forward.
26
But My people have not listened to Me or even tried to hear. They
have been stubborn and sinful—even worse than their ancestors.
Jeremiah
11:8 KJV
Yet
they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all
the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they
did them not.
Jeremiah
17:23 NLT
but
they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention
or accept My discipline.
Jeremiah
19:15 NLT
“This
is what The Lord Of Heaven’s Armies, The God Of Israel, says: ‘I
will bring disaster upon this city and its surrounding towns as I
promised, because you have stubbornly refused to listen to Me.’”
Zechariah
7:11,12 KJV
11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
hear the law, and the words which The Lord Of Hosts hath sent in His
Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from The
Lord Of Hosts.
Matthew
7:13,14 KJV
13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat:
14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find it.
Mark
6:52 KJV
For
they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was
hardened.
Mark
8:17 KJV
And
when Jesus knew it, He saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye
have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your
heart yet hardened?
Acts
7:51 KJV
“You
stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to The Truth. Must
you forever resist The Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did,
and so do you!
Acts 19:8-10 NLT (Paul Ministers in Ephesus)
8
Then Paul went to the synagogue and preached boldly for the next
three months, arguing persuasively about the Kingdom of God.
9
But some became stubborn, rejecting his message and publicly speaking
against the Way. So Paul left the synagogue and took the believers
with him. Then he held daily discussions at the lecture hall of
Tyrannus.
10
This went on for the next two years, so that people throughout the
province of Asia—both Jews and Greeks—heard The Word Of The Lord.
Romans
2:5 NLT
But
because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are
storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is
coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
II
Corinthians 3:14 NLT
But
the people’s minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old
covenant is being read, the same veil covers their minds so they
cannot understand The Truth. And this veil can be removed only by
believing in Christ.
Ephesians
4:18 KJV
Their
minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives
because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts
against Him.
II
Timothy 4:3,4 KJV
3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears;
4
And they shall turn away their ears from The Truth, and shall be
turned unto fables.
Prayer:
Philippians
2:3 KJV
Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than themselves.
