¹⁴ Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

²⁷ For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

¹² Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

⁷ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

⁸ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

²⁶ Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

⁴ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

¹ He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

³² For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

²² Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

¹³ And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

³² Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

⁹ And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: