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Acts 7:51

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

  1. Deuteronomy 10:16Rank 1 from verse 51
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

  2. Ephesians 4:30Rank 2 from verse 51
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    30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

  3. Isaiah 63:10Rank 3 from verse 51
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    10¶ But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

  4. Jeremiah 4:4Rank 4 from verse 51
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    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.

  5. Leviticus 26:41Rank 5 from verse 51
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    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:

  6. Philippians 3:3Rank 6 from verse 51
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    3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

  7. Exodus 33:5Rank 7 from verse 51
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    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.

  8. Exodus 32:9Rank 8 from verse 51
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    9And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  9. Jeremiah 6:10Rank 9 from verse 51
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    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.

  10. Exodus 33:3Rank 10 from verse 51
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    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.

  11. Acts 6:10Rank 11 from verse 51
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    10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

  12. Acts 7:39Rank 12 from verse 51
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

  13. Colossians 2:11Rank 13 from verse 51
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    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:

  14. Exodus 34:9Rank 14 from verse 51
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    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.

  15. Jeremiah 17:23Rank 15 from verse 51
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    23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  16. Psalms 78:8Rank 16 from verse 51
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    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.

  17. Romans 2:25Rank 17 from verse 51
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    25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

  18. Acts 7:27Rank 18 from verse 51
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    27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  19. Acts 7:9Rank 19 from verse 51
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    9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

  20. Deuteronomy 31:27Rank 20 from verse 51
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    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?

  21. Ezekiel 2:4Rank 21 from verse 51
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    4For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.

  22. Ezekiel 44:7Rank 22 from verse 51
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    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.

  23. Ezekiel 44:9Rank 23 from verse 51
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    9¶ Thus 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.

  24. Nehemiah 9:16Rank 24 from verse 51
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  25. Nehemiah 9:30Rank 25 from verse 51
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    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.

  26. Romans 2:28–29Rank 26 from verse 51
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    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.

  27. Zechariah 7:11–12Rank 27 from verse 51
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    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.

  28. 2 Chronicles 30:8Rank 28 from verse 51
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    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.

  29. Deuteronomy 30:6Rank 29 from verse 51
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    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.

  30. Deuteronomy 9:13Rank 30 from verse 51
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    13Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

  31. Deuteronomy 9:6Rank 31 from verse 51
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    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.

  32. Isaiah 48:4Rank 32 from verse 51
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    4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

  33. Jeremiah 9:25–26Rank 33 from verse 51
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    25¶ Behold, 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.

  34. Matthew 23:31–33Rank 34 from verse 51
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    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?

  35. Psalms 75:5Rank 35 from verse 51
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    5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

  36. Acts 7:35Rank 36 from verse 51
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    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.

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Acts 7:51

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

uncircumcised

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Sense 1: Not circumcised in the flesh. Sense 2: Figuratively, unpurified, unready, resistant, or unreceptive.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ears

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Plural form of ear. Sense 1: The organ of hearing. Sense 2: The seed-bearing head of grain.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

resist

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To oppose, withstand, strive against, hinder, refuse, or set oneself against.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ghost

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Sense 1: A spirit. Sense 2: In the title Holy Ghost, the divine Spirit of God. Sense 3: The life or spirit yielded up at death, in the expression to give or yield up the ghost.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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7:51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

7:53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

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