"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

And the Jews, seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly said, "It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But because they were opposing and blaspheming, he shook off his clothes and said to them, "Your blood [be] on your [own] heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers.

And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers [did]; give glory to the Lord God, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, and He shall turn away [His] fierce anger from you.

Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and despised His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy.

But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to Your commandments,

and refused to listen, and remembered not Your wonders which You worked among them. And they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and You did not forsake them.

And You testified against them, to bring them back to Your law; but they hearkened not, and sinned against Your commandments and Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them; and they turned their back, and hardened their neck, and heard not.

Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

And if you shall trust in Him, He shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you shall not come against [Him] as against a stumbling stone, neither as against the falling of a rock; but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and those who dwell in Jerusalem are in a pit.

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

Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the doom which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, [that they might not] hearken to My commands.

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them."

So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained [it], and the rest were blinded.

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Now there arose during that time a serious disturbance concerning the Way.

and requested from him letters [of authority] to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he should find any who were of the Way, both men or women, he might bring them, having been bound, to Jerusalem.

I, who persecuted this Way to death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women,

unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.'"

But we request to hear from you the things which you think; for concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And many will follow after their debaucheries, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

But these, as unreasoning natural animals, having been born for capture and destruction, blaspheme at things which they are ignorant of, and shall be destroyed in their destruction,

But these speak blasphemously of those things which they do not know; but what they do know naturally, like unreasoning animals, they are destroyed by these things.

And the multitude of the city was divided: and some were with the Jews, and others with the apostles.

And some of them were persuaded and were joined with Paul and Silas, both of the devout Greeks, a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

And having gone over from there, he went into the house of a certain [man] named Justus, who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, were believing and were being baptized.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And leaving them behind He went away.

Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

Father will be divided against a son and a son against father, a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such [people].

having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to arrest Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me.

preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and teaching.