Quotes About Stubbornness

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

But they will reply, ëIt is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.í”

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.í”

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ëThe LORD says that you will have peace,í and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ëNo harm will come to you.í

They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says.í

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.