Here are 30 verses from the Bible about stubbornness:
- Exodus 32:9:
“‘I have seen these people,’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘and they are a stiff-necked people.’”
- Exodus 33:3:
“Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”
- Exodus 33:5:
“For the Lord had said to Moses, ‘Tell the Israelites, “You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.”’”
- Exodus 34:9:
“‘Lord,’ he said, ‘if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.’”
- Deuteronomy 9:6:
“Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
- Deuteronomy 9:13:
“And the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!’”
- Deuteronomy 9:24:
“You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.”
- Deuteronomy 31:27:
“For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!”
- Deuteronomy 31:29:
“For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:8:
“Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.”
- Nehemiah 9:16:
“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.”
- Nehemiah 9:17:
“They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them.”
- Nehemiah 9:29:
“You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.”
- Psalm 78:8:
“They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.”
- Psalm 81:11:
“But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.”
- Proverbs 29:1:
“Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.”
- Jeremiah 7:26:
“But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.”
- Jeremiah 17:23:
“Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.”
- Jeremiah 19:15:
“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’”
- Jeremiah 32:33:
“They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.”
- Ezekiel 2:4:
“The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’”
- Ezekiel 3:7:
“But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.”
- Acts 7:51:
“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!”
- Romans 2:5:
“But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.”
- Romans 10:21:
“But concerning Israel he says, ‘All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.’”
- Hebrews 3:7-8:
“So, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,’”
- Hebrews 3:15:
“As has just been said: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.’”
- Hebrews 4:7:
“God again set a certain day, calling it ‘Today.’ This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.’”
- James 4:7:
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
- Zechariah 7:11-12:
“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.”
These verses highlight the consequences and warnings associated with stubbornness and rebellion against God’s commands.
