8 Bible Verses about Avoiding Obstinacy

Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation;

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem; and they shall no more walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.