Nehemiah 9:29

God warned them to return to his law, which gives life, but they arrogantly refused to listen. It matters because it shows the life-giving purpose of God's commands rejected by pride.

Cross-references · 26

• Neh 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
• Lev 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
• Neh 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
• Neh 9:10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
• Jer 43:2Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’
• Jas 4:6–10But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Zech 7:11–12But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
• Hos 6:5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
• Rom 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Jer 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
• Jer 44:10To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
• Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
• Jer 13:15–17Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
• Ezek 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
• Deut 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
• Jer 17:23Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Jer 25:3–7“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
• 2 Kgs 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
• Jer 19:15“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
• 2 Chr 24:19Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.
• Gal 3:12The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Dan 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
• 2 Chr 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

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