Acts 7:51

Stephen sharply rebukes his hearers as stiff-necked, spiritually uncircumcised, and resisters of the Holy Spirit, like their fathers. He confronts their persistent rebellion against God.

Cross-references · 36

• Deut 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
• Jer 4:4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
• Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
• Lev 26:41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
• Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Exod 33:5Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into the middle of you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
• Exod 32:9Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• Exod 33:3to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
• Acts 6:10They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
• Col 2:11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• Ps 78:8and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
• Rom 2:25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Acts 7:27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
• Ezek 44:7in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
• Ezek 44:9Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
• Jer 17:23But they didn’t listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
• Neh 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
• Neh 9:16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Acts 7:9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
• Deut 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
• Rom 2:28–29For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• Exod 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
• Ezek 2:4The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’
• Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• Deut 9:13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
• Isa 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
• Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
• Deut 9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
• Ps 75:5Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
• Zech 7:11–12But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Matt 23:31–33Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
• 2 Chr 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
• Acts 7:35“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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