Acts 7:51

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Then Stephen said, “You stubborn Jewish leaders! You refuse to give your hearts to God or even listen to him. You are always against what the Holy Spirit wants you to do. That’s how your ancestors were, and you are just like them!

Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:16

“Stop being stubborn. Give your hearts to God.

Leviticus 26:41

Maybe they will admit that I turned against them and brought them into the land of their enemies. These people will be like strangers to me. But maybe they will become humble and accept the punishment for their sin.

Ephesians 4:30

And don’t make the Holy Spirit sad. God gave you his Spirit as proof that you belong to him and that he will keep you safe until the day he makes you free.

Jeremiah 4:4

Become the Lord’s people. Change your hearts. Men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, if you don’t change, then I will become very angry. My anger will spread fast like a fire, and it will burn you up. No one will be able to put out that fire because of the evil you have done.”

Isaiah 63:10

But they turned against him and made his Holy Spirit very sad. So the Lord became their enemy and fought against them.

Exodus 33:5

This was because the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stubborn people. I might destroy you even if I travel with you only a short time. So take off all your jewelry while I decide what to do with you.’”

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and I know that they are very stubborn. They will always turn against me.

Philippians 3:3

But we are the ones who have the true circumcision—we who worship God through his Spirit. We don’t trust in ourselves or anything we can do. We take pride only in Christ Jesus.

Exodus 33:3

So go to the land filled with many good things, but I will not go with you. You people are very stubborn. If I go with you, I might destroy you along the way.”

Acts 6:10

But the Spirit was helping him speak with wisdom. His words were so strong that these Jews could not argue with him.

Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I speak to? Who can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed their ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the Lord’s teachings. They don’t want to hear his message.

Psalm 78:8

They would not be like their ancestors, who were stubborn and refused to obey. Their hearts were not devoted to God, and they were not faithful to him.

Colossians 2:11

In Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, one that was not done by human hands. That is, you were made free from the power of your sinful self. That is the kind of circumcision Christ does.

Romans 2:25

If you follow the law, then your circumcision has meaning. But if you break the law, then it is as if you were never circumcised.

Acts 7:39

“But our ancestors did not want to obey Moses. They rejected him. They wanted to go back to Egypt again.

Acts 7:27

The man who was hurting the other one pushed Moses away and said to him, ‘Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge?

Acts 7:9

“These ancestors of ours became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him

Ezekiel 44:9

This is what the Lord GOD says: “A foreigner who is not truly circumcised must not come into my Temple—not even a foreigner living permanently among the people of Israel. He must be circumcised, and he must give himself completely to me before he can come into my Temple.

Ezekiel 44:7

You brought foreigners into my Temple who are not circumcised and have not given themselves to me. In this way you made my Temple unclean. You broke our agreement and did terrible things, and then you gave me the offerings of bread, the fat, and the blood. But this only made my Temple unclean.

Nehemiah 9:30

“You were very patient with our ancestors. You let them mistreat you for many years. You warned them with your Spirit. You sent the prophets to warn them. But our ancestors didn’t listen. So you gave them to people in other countries.

Deuteronomy 31:27

I know you are very stubborn. I know you want to live your own way. Look, you refused to obey the Lord while I was with you. So I know you will refuse to obey him after I die.

Ezekiel 2:4

I am sending you to speak to them, but they are very stubborn. They are very hardheaded, but you must speak to them. You must say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’

Jeremiah 17:23

but they did not obey me. They did not pay attention to me. Your ancestors were very stubborn. I punished them, but it did not do any good. They did not listen to me.

Isaiah 48:4

I did that because I knew you were stubborn. You were like iron that will not bend, with heads as hard as bronze.

Psalm 75:5

Don’t be so sure that you will win. Don’t boast that victory is yours!’”

Nehemiah 9:16

But our ancestors became proud and stubborn. They refused to obey your commands.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Don’t be stubborn as your ancestors were. But obey the Lord with a willing heart. Come to the Temple that he has made to be holy forever. Serve the Lord your God. Then his fearful anger will turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey him. Then you will love the Lord your God with all your heart. And you will live!

Deuteronomy 9:13

“The Lord also said to me, ‘I have watched these people. They are very stubborn!

Deuteronomy 9:6

The Lord your God is giving you that good land to live in, but you should know that it is not because you are good. The truth is that you are very stubborn people!

Exodus 34:9

“Lord, if you are pleased with me, please go with us. I know that these are stubborn people, but forgive us for the bad things we did. Accept us as your people.”

Acts 7:35

“This Moses was the one his people said they did not want. They said, ‘Did anyone say you could be our ruler and judge?’ But he is the one God sent to be a ruler and savior. God sent him with the help of an angel, the one Moses saw in the burning bush.

Numbers 27:14

Remember when the people became angry at the water in the desert of Zin. Both you and Aaron refused to obey my command. You did not honor me and show the people that I am holy.” (This was at the water of Meribah near Kadesh in the desert of Zin.)

2 Kings 17:14

But the people would not listen. They were very stubborn like their ancestors. Their ancestors did not believe the Lord their God.