Deuteronomy 9:6

9:6 Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn ¹  people!

Deuteronomy 31:27

31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ²  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ³ 

Nehemiah 9:16-17

9:16 “But they – our ancestors ⁴  – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled ⁵  and did not obey your commandments. 9:17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. ⁶  But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. ⁷  You did not abandon them,

Nehemiah 9:26

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ⁸  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Matthew 19:8

19:8 Jesus ⁹  said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, ¹⁰  but from the beginning it was not this way.

Acts 7:51

7:51 “You stubborn ¹¹  people, with uncircumcised ¹²  hearts and ears! ¹³  You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors ¹⁴  did!

Hebrews 3:7-10

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, ¹⁵ 

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ¹⁶ 

3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, ¹⁷  and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering ¹⁸  and they have not known my ways.’

[9:6]  ¹ tn Heb “stiff-necked” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).

[31:27]  ² tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

[31:27]  ³ tn Heb “How much more after my death?” The Hebrew text has a sarcastic rhetorical question here; the translation seeks to bring out the force of the question.

[9:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “and our fathers.” The vav is explicative.

[9:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck” (so also in the following verse).

[9:17]  ⁶ tc The present translation follows a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the LXX in reading בְּמִצְרָיִם (bÿmitsrayim, “in Egypt”; so also NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT) rather than the MT reading בְּמִרְיָם (bÿmiryam, “in their rebellion”).

[9:17]  ⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere reading חֶסֶד (khesed, “loyal love”) rather than the Kethib reading וְחֶסֶד (vÿkhesed, “and loyal love”) of the MT.

[9:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[19:8]  ⁹ tc A few important mss (א Φ pc) have the name “Jesus” here, but it is probably not original. Nevertheless, this translation routinely specifies the referents of pronouns to improve clarity, so that has been done here.

[19:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “heart” (a collective singular).

[7:51]  ¹¹ sn Traditionally, “stiff-necked people.” Now the critique begins in earnest.

[7:51]  ¹² tn The term ἀπερίτμητοι (aperitmhtoi, “uncircumcised”) is a NT hapax legomenon (occurs only once). See BDAG 101-2 s.v. ἀπερίτμητος and Isa 52:1.

[7:51]  ¹³ tn Or “You stubborn and obstinate people!” (The phrase “uncircumcised hearts and ears” is another figure for stubbornness.)

[7:51]  ¹⁴ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[3:7]  ¹⁵ sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.

[3:7]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

[3:9]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

[3:10]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”