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Acts 7:51

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

KJV

Σκληροτράχηλοι καὶ ἀπερίτμητοι καρδίαις καὶ τοῖς ὠσίν, ὑμεῖς ἀεὶ τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ ἀντιπίπτετε, ὡς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν καὶ ὑμεῖς.

Greek NT

Dura cervice, et incircumcisis cordibus et auribus, vos semper Spiritui Sancto resistitis : sicut patres vestri, ita et vos.

Vulgate

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

ASV

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
οὖς
ous
noun · 36×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
σκληροτράχηλος
sklerotrachelos
adjective · 1×
ἀεί
aei
adverb · 7×
ἀντιπίπτω
antipipto
verb · 1×
ἀπερίτμητος
aperitmetos
adjective · 1×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: καρδίαις | WH/Treg/NIV: καρδίαις | RP: τῇ καρδίᾳ
  • καρδίαιςSBLGNT
  • καρδίαιςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τῇ καρδίᾳRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210217.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth has come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed? He here accordingly labors at this very point, showing that …

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:18 — Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • 1Sam 10:27 — But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
  • 1Thess 5:19 — Quench not the Spirit.
  • 2Chr 30:8 — Now 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 o
  • 2Kgs 17:14 — Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
  • Acts 5:39 — But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
  • Acts 6:10 — And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
  • Acts 6:10 — And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
  • Acts 7:9 — And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
  • Acts 7:27 — But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
  • Acts 7:39 — To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
  • Acts 7:39 — To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
  • Acts 13:46 — Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting lif
  • Acts 19:9 — But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
  • Col 2:11 — In 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:
  • Dan 9:6 — Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
  • Deut 1:26 — Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
  • Deut 9:6 — Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
  • Deut 9:6 — Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
  • Deut 9:13 — Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
  • Deut 9:14 — Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
  • Deut 9:24 — Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
  • Deut 10:16 — Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
  • Deut 30:6 — And 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.
  • Deut 31:27 — For 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?
  • Deut 32:5 — They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
  • Eccl 1:10 — Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
  • Eph 4:30 — And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
  • Eph 4:30 — And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
  • Exod 6:12 — And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
  • Exod 32:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
  • Exod 32:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
  • Exod 33:3 — Unto 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.
  • Exod 33:3 — Unto 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.
  • Exod 33:5 — For 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
  • Exod 34:9 — And 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 inheritan
  • Ezek 2:4 — For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 3:8 — Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
  • Ezek 12:2 — Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 20:18 — But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: