Bible Verses About Stubbornness Is As Witchcraft

Dear friends, stubbornness is a sin that the Bible warns us strongly against. When we are stubborn, refusing to listen to wisdom or turn from our ways, it is like witchcraft – we are under a spell of pride and self-will.

The story of Pharaoh in Exodus shows how dangerous stubbornness is. Though Moses performed miraculous signs, Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let the Israelites go. His stubbornness led to terrible plagues in Egypt. Even when given the chance to repent, Pharaoh stubbornly chose his own way.

We see this too with Saul, Israel’s first king. Though anointed by God, Saul disobeyed and stubbornly did things his own way. He refused godly counsel. As a result, Saul lost God’s blessing and another was anointed king in his place.

Friends, let us beware of stubbornness. It leads only to pain and loss. When faced with wisdom or correction, let us have soft hearts ready to hear and turn from our wrong ways. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. The wisdom from above is open to reason and full of mercy. As we walk in humility and faith, avoiding stubborn pride, God will lead us into blessing.

Dear friends, now let’s look at some Bible verses below that talk about stubbornness.

Understanding Stubbornness and Rebellion Against God

1 Samuel 15:23
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord , he hath also rejected thee from being king”

Proverbs 29:1
“He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy”

Jeremiah 7:24
“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward”

Exodus 32:9
“And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people”

Isaiah 65:2
“I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts”

Nehemiah 9:16
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments”

Jeremiah 5:23
“But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone”

The Consequences of a Hardened Heart

Deuteronomy 9:13
“Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people”

Hebrews 3:8
“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness”

Zechariah 7:12
“Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts”

Proverbs 28:14
“Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief”

2 Chronicles 36:13
“And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel”

Exodus 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 inheritance”

Romans 2:5
“But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God”

Repentance and Submission to God’s Will

James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”

Ezekiel 18:30
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God . Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin”

Acts 3:19
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord”

2 Chronicles 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 of his wrath may turn away from you”

Job 42:6
“Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes”

Luke 13:3
“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish”

Proverbs 1:23
“Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you”

Wisdom versus Foolishness

Proverbs 12:15
“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise”

Proverbs 13:20
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed”

Proverbs 14:16
“A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident”

Ecclesiastes 10:2
“A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left”

Proverbs 18:2
“A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself”

Proverbs 10:8
“The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall”

The Dangers of Idolatry and False Worship

Exodus 20:4-5
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me”

Deuteronomy 4:16
“Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female”

1 John 5:21
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen”

Isaiah 44:9-10
“They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?”

Galatians 5:20
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies”

Acts 17:29
“Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device”

Restoration through Obedience

Jeremiah 26:13
“Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you”

Deuteronomy 30:2-3
“And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee”

Hosea 14:1
“O israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity”

Zephaniah 2:3
“Seek ye the Lord , all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord ‘s anger”

1 Peter 1:14
“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance”

Acts 5:29
“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men”

Seeking Divine Guidance

Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths”

Psalm 25:9
“The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way”

James 1:5
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him”

Psalm 119:105
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”

Isaiah 58:11
“And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not”

Psalm 143:10
“Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness”