Acts 7:51

The Passion Translation

“Why would you be so stubborn as to close your hearts and your ears to me? You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just like your forefathers!

Cross References

Ephesians 4:30

The Holy Spirit of God has sealed you in Jesus Christ until you experience your full salvation. So never grieve the Spirit of God or take for granted his holy influence in your life.

Jeremiah 4:4

Listen, people of Judah and Jerusalem. Circumcise your hearts and become vulnerable to me. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like unquenchable fire on account of your evil deeds.”

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled against him and grieved his Holy Spirit. Only then did he turn against them. He became their enemy and fought against them.

Philippians 3:3

For we have already experienced “heart-circumcision,” and we worship God in the power and freedom of the Holy Spirit, not in laws and religious duties. We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done, and not in what we can accomplish in our own strength.

Acts 6:10

But the Holy Spirit gave Stephen remarkable wisdom to answer them. His words were prompted by the Holy Spirit, and they could not refute what he said.

Jeremiah 6:10

If I speak to warn the remnant of Israel, no one will listen. Their ears are blocked, and they are incapable of hearing. The word of Yahweh has become an object of scorn; it’s no longer a pleasure for them.

Psalm 78:8

By following his ways they will break the past bondage of their fickle fathers, who were a stubborn, rebellious generation and whose spirits strayed from the eternal God. They refused to love him with all their hearts.

Colossians 2:11

Through our union with him we have experienced circumcision of heart. All of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and is now extinct because of what Christ, the Anointed One, has accomplished for us.

Romans 2:25

You trust in the covenant sign of circumcision, yet circumcision only has value if you faithfully keep the teachings of the law. But if you violate the law, you have invalidated your circumcision.

Acts 7:39

But our forefathers refused to obey. They pushed him away, and their hearts longed to return to Egypt.

Acts 7:27

“But the perpetrator pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who do you think you are? Who appointed you to be our ruler and judge?

Acts 7:9

“Isaac then became the father of Jacob, who was the father of our twelve patriarchs. Jacob’s sons became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God’s favor and blessing rested upon Joseph, and in time,

Ezekiel 44:9

Lord Yahweh says, “No gentile, uncircumcised in heart and body, may enter my sanctuary, even the foreigners living among the Israelites.

Ezekiel 44:7

You have desecrated my temple by admitting gentiles into my sanctuary who are uncircumcised in heart and body, allowing them into my presence while you offer the fat and blood of sacrifices to me. You have broken my covenant in addition to all the wicked things you have done.

Ezekiel 2:4

I am sending you to a stubborn and hard-hearted people. Tell them, ‘Lord Yahweh says this.’

Jeremiah 17:23

(Yet they would not listen or obey; they stubbornly refused and would not obey or accept instruction.)

Isaiah 48:4

I knew you were stubborn. Your neck is like a rod of iron, and you’re as hard-hearted as brass!

Psalm 75:5

Why would you speak with such stubborn pride? Don’t you dare raise your fist against me!”

Acts 7:35

“So God sent back to Egypt the man our people rejected and refused to recognize by saying, ‘Who appointed you to be our ruler and judge?’ God sent this man back to be their ruler and deliverer, commissioned with the power of the messenger who appeared to him in the flaming thorn bush.