But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
Acts 7:51 - Revised Standard Version “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You stubborn and stiff-necked people, still heathen and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. As your forefathers [were], so you [are and so you do]! [Exod. 33:3, 5; Num. 27:14; Isa. 63:10; Jer. 6:10; 9:26.] American Standard Version (1901) Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. Common English Bible “You stubborn people! In your thoughts and hearing, you are like those who have had no part in God’s covenant! You continuously set yourself against the Holy Spirit, just like your ancestors did. Catholic Public Domain Version Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also. |
But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
“But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey thy commandments;
Many years thou didst bear with them, and didst warn them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;
Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.’ ”
And he said, “If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.”
Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.
The people also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them; and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning it, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.
so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity;
because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him,
Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are; behold, while I am yet alive with you, today you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more after my death!
“Furthermore the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;
“Know therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.
For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ;