SELF-WILL

Passages on this topic · 50

• Genesis 49:6

  My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

• Exodus 32:9

  Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

• Exodus 34:9

  He 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.”

• Deuteronomy 9:6

  Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:13

  Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:27

  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

• Deuteronomy 21:18

  If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

• Deuteronomy 21:19

  then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

• Deuteronomy 21:21

  All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

• Deuteronomy 31:27

  For 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?

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

• 1 Samuel 8:19

  But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 1 Samuel 15:20

  Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:21

  But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• 1 Samuel 15:23

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 2 Samuel 24:4

  Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

• 2 Kings 17:14

  Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

• 2 Chronicles 30:8

  Now 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.

• 2 Chronicles 35:22

  Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Nehemiah 9:16

  “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

• Nehemiah 9:17

  and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

• Nehemiah 9:29

  and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

• Psalms 32:9

  Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

• Psalms 75:5

  Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

• Psalms 78:8

  and 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.

• Psalms 78:10

  They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

• Proverbs 1:24

  Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• Proverbs 29:1

  He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

• Isaiah 42:24

  Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

• Isaiah 48:4

  Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

• Jeremiah 5:3

  O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

• Jeremiah 7:24

  But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

• Jeremiah 7:28

  You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

• Jeremiah 23:17

  They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You shall have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil shall come on you.’

• Jeremiah 31:18

  “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• Jeremiah 44:16

  “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

• Zechariah 7:11

  But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

• Acts 7:51

  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Hebrews 3:7

  Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

• Hebrews 3:8

  don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

• Hebrews 3:9

  where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

• Hebrews 3:10

  Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’

• Hebrews 3:11

  as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

• Hebrews 3:12

  Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

• 2 Peter 2:10

  but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;