For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

in that he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, which he adjured him by God [not to do]; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.

I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

but they hearkened not to Me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

And in this matter you believed not the Lord our God,

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not His miracles.

Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;