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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 the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked 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• ⁴¹And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of 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 are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. (Jer. 9:26)

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

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stiffnecked.

Ex. 32:9• ⁹And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: (Ex. 32:9)

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Ex. 33:3,5• ³Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
⁵For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. (Ex. 33:3,5)

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Ex. 34:9• ⁹And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. (Ex. 34:9)

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Deut. 9:6,13• ⁶Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
¹³Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: (Deut. 9:6,13)

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Deut. 31:27• ²⁷For 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? (Deut. 31:27)

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2 Chron. 30:8• ⁸Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. (2 Chron. 30:8)

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Neh. 9:16• ¹⁶But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, 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 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 set not their heart aright, 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 obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. (Jer. 17:23)

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Ezek. 2:4• ⁴For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. (Ezek. 2:4)

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Zech. 7:11‑12• ¹¹But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
¹²Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. (Zech. 7:11‑12)

uncircumcised.

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

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Deut. 10:16• ¹⁶Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. (Deut. 10:16)

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

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Jer. 4:4• ⁴Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, 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 that none can 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 give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. (Jer. 6:10)

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Jer. 9:25‑26• ²⁵Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. (Jer. 9:25‑26)

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Ezek. 44:7,9• ⁷In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
⁹Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor 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 verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
²⁸For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
²⁹But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the 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, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. (Phil. 3:3)

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Col. 2:11• ¹¹In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (Col. 2:11)

resist.

Acts 6:10• ¹⁰And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. (Acts 6:10)

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Neh. 9:30• ³⁰Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. (Neh. 9:30)

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

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Eph. 4:30• ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (Eph. 4:30)

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

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Matt. 23:31‑33• ³¹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
³³Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation 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.