Bible Verses about “stubbornness”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”

“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”

“‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›”

“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›”

“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”

“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”

“¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

“To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”

“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].”

“Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”

“From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”

“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”

“And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:”

“¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

“¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”

“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

“Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”

“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”

“¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”

“When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?”

“But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].”

“¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”

“Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:”

“Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:”

“And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

“Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.”

“And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.”

“For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.”

“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”

“And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].”

“‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›”

“‹Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.›”

“‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›”

“‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.›”

“‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›”

“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”

“‹Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every› [branch] ‹that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.›”