Bible Verses About Stubbornness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for stubbornness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,344 votes, led by Proverbs 29:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Stubbornness
Proverbs 29:1148 votes
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Psalms 81:11-12110 votes
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Romans 2:5103 votes
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;
Philippians 2:3102 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 Samuel 15:2375 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
John 5:3073 votes
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Galatians 5:19-2165 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Proverbs 12:155 votes
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
John 15:1-2749 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
1 Peter 5:849 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Acts 7:5142 votes
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Isaiah 1:1-3136 votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Psalms 32:930 votes
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Isaiah 48:430 votes
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Psalms 78:828 votes
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Zechariah 7:1128 votes
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Exodus 32:927 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Zechariah 7:11-1227 votes
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Matthew 13:2327 votes
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Jeremiah 7:2424 votes
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Matthew 28:2021 votes
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Isaiah 46:1220 votes
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Hebrews 3:7-1218 votes
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
2 Kings 17:1417 votes
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.
Psalms 46:10-1116 votes
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
What does the Bible say about stubbornness?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 29:1 on the subject of stubbornness. Across 1,344 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 81:11-12, Romans 2:5, Philippians 2:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.