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

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Ex. 32:9• ⁹And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. (Ex. 32:9)

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Isa. 48:4• ⁴Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass, (Isa. 48:4)

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Lev. 26:41• ⁴¹so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, (Lev. 26:41)

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Jer. 9:26• ²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. (Jer. 9:26)

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Rom. 2:28‑29• ²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
²⁹but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom. 2:28‑29)

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stiffnecked.

Ex. 32:9• ⁹And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. (Ex. 32:9)

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Ex. 33:3,5• ³into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people,--lest I consume thee on the way.
⁵Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: in one moment I will come up into the midst of thee and will consume thee. And now put off thine ornaments from thee, and I will know what I will do unto thee. (Ex. 33:3,5)

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Ex. 34:9• ⁹and said, If indeed I have found grace in thine eyes, Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in our midst; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for an inheritance! (Ex. 34:9)

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Deut. 9:6,13• ⁶Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.
¹³And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. (Deut. 9:6,13)

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Deut. 31:27• ²⁷for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death! (Deut. 31:27)

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2 Chron. 30:8• ⁸Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you. (2 Chron. 30:8)

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Neh. 9:16• ¹⁶But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments, (Neh. 9:16)

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Psa. 75:5• ⁵Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck. (Psa. 75:5)

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Psa. 78:8• ⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God. (Psa. 78:8)

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Isa. 48:4• ⁴Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass, (Isa. 48:4)

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Jer. 17:23• ²³but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, that they might not hear nor receive instruction. (Jer. 17:23)

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Ezek. 2:4• ⁴and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 2:4)

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Zech. 7:11‑12• ¹¹But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.
¹²And they made their heart as an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts. (Zech. 7:11‑12)

uncircumcised.

Lev. 26:41• ⁴¹so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, (Lev. 26:41)

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Deut. 10:16• ¹⁶Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more. (Deut. 10:16)

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Deut. 30:6• ⁶And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. (Deut. 30:6)

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Jer. 4:4• ⁴Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (Jer. 4:4)

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Jer. 6:10• ¹⁰To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. (Jer. 6:10)

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Jer. 9:25‑26• ²⁵Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all them that are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. (Jer. 9:25‑26)

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Ezek. 44:7,9• ⁷in that ye have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when ye offered my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant besides all your abominations.
⁹Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: No stranger, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. (Ezek. 44:7,9)

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Rom. 2:25,28‑29• ²⁵For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
²⁹but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom. 2:25,28‑29)

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Phil. 3:3• ³For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh. (Phil. 3:3)

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Col. 2:11• ¹¹in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ; (Col. 2:11)

resist.

Acts 6:10• ¹⁰And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. (Acts 6:10)

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Neh. 9:30• ³⁰And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. (Neh. 9:30)

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Isa. 63:10• ¹⁰But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)

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Eph. 4:30• ³⁰And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph. 4:30)

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Acts 7:9,27,35,39• ⁹And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
²⁷But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?
³⁵This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
³⁹to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt, (Acts 7:9,27,35,39)

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Matt. 23:31‑33• ³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell? (Matt. 23:31‑33)

• {v.51-53} Law, prophets, Christ, the Holy Spirit, all tried, and man at enmity against God. The cross had really proved it, but this had added the rejection of the testimony of the Holy Spirit to a glorified Christ. (“John 7” by J.N. Darby)

• They always resisted the Holy Spirit, as they had always disobeyed the law. Judaism was judged, after the long patience of God and all His ways of grace with man as means were exhausted. (“Acts 6-7” by J.N. Darby)

• {v.51-53} A most instructive and wonderfully compressed summary of their national sins from first to last, heard of God's unparalleled dealings with Israel. (“Acts 7:51-53” by W. Kelly)

• Alas! they were, as Moses told them at the outset, a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. (“Acts 7:51-53” by W. Kelly)

• He begins with their habitual antagonism, fathers and sons alike, to the Holy Spirit; so that their prime religious badge had lost all meaning—their circumcision was become uncircumcision. (“Acts 7:51-53” by W. Kelly)

• {v.51-53} No people till then so privileged, none so guilty, and, we may add, so convicted; for they had broken the law, persecuted the prophets, slain the Messiah, and always resisted the Holy Ghost. (“Acts 7:51-53” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.

W. Kelly Translation

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Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heartsa and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye.

WK Translation Notes

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Some MSS. give the singular.