6245 stubbornness
Dictionary of Bible Themes

Proud and disobedient resistance to God's will and rejection of his commands.

Jeremiah 7:24

Stubbornness is an attitude of heart

See also

Deuteronomy 9:27
Judges 2:19
Psalms 78:8
Isaiah 48:4
Jeremiah 3:17; 5:3; 9:14; 16:12; 18:12
Hosea 4:16
Zechariah 7:11
Ephesians 4:18

The practical consequences of stubbornness

See also

Exodus 13:15; 33:3
Leviticus 26:19
2 Chronicles 26:16
Nehemiah 9:16-17
Job 20:6-7
Psalms 10:4
Proverbs 1:24-31; 28:14; 29:1
Isaiah 2:11

sudden destruction for the unrepentant

Jeremiah 5:3; 11:8; 13:10
Daniel 5:20

a humbling on judgment day

Hosea 13:6

King Nebuchadnezzar deposed

Zephaniah 3:11
Mark 6:51-52

The people of Israel forget their God

Matthew 18:15-17
Romans 2:5

Jesus Christ's disciples amazed

The self-righteous store up wrath for the day of judgment.

Nehemiah 9:29

Commands not to be stubborn

See also

Exodus 33:5
2 Chronicles 30:8
Psalms 95:8
Mark 16:14
Isaiah 63:17

Stubbornness can be God's judgment on sin

See also

Exodus 4:21; 14:17

When people persistently refuse to obey God, he brings about a condition where they cannot obey him, and consequently cannot receive his blessing.

Deuteronomy 2:30
Joshua 11:20
Psalms 81:11-12
Romans 9:18; 11:7-8
Isaiah 65:2

God's appeal to stubborn people

See also

Romans 10:21
2 Chronicles 32:24-25
Job 33:16-18
Isaiah 46:12
Jeremiah 7:22-24
Ezekiel 2:4-5
Zechariah 7:11-12
Acts 19:8-9

See also

3284 Holy Spirit, resisting
5171 nose
5931 resistance
6020 sin
6178 hardness of heart
6193 impenitence
6663 freedom, of the will
7227 flood, the
8718 disobedience
8785 opposition
8802 pride
8839 unfaithfulness
Dictionary of Bible Themes
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