Bible Verses About Obduracy

And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:

Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:

I also will laugh inthe day ofyour calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,

They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

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

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

while it is said, To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.