Bible Verses about “stubbornness”

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”

“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”

“Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."”

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

“"Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "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. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

“Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.”

“When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.”

“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;”

“"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.”

“My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.”

“Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.”

“From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.”

“Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.”

“Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

“Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.”

“and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your 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, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

“The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."”

“Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.”

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

“The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.”

“Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!”

“When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?”

“but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."”

“How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.”

“Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.”

“Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;”

“I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'”

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

“But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.”

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

“For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.”

“The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."”

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

“You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.”

“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

“Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.”

“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”

“Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.”

“Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”