Ezekiel 3:8

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Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as strong as their foreheads.

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  • Jer 1:18 : 18 Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 I will make you a fortified bronze wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,' declares the LORD.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
  • Acts 7:51-56 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53 you who received the law through angels but have not obeyed it. 54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 He said, 'Look, I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.'
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king, for he persevered as though seeing the one who is invisible.
  • Heb 11:32-37 : 32 And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength out of weakness, became mighty in battle, and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36 Still others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, and they were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated.
  • Exod 4:15-16 : 15 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what to do. 16 He will speak for you to the people, and he will serve as your mouth, and you will serve as God to him.
  • Exod 11:4-8 : 4 Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: About midnight I will go out through the midst of Egypt. 5 Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been nor ever will be again. 7 But not even a dog will bark against any of the Israelites, either man or beast, so that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying, ‘Leave, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will go out." And he left Pharaoh in hot anger.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 Ahab said to Elijah, 'So, have you found me, my enemy?' 'I have found you,' he answered, 'because you have devoted yourself to doing evil in the eyes of the LORD.'
  • Isa 50:7 : 7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 3:9-10
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    9I have made your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not fear them or be dismayed by their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.

    10And he said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all the words I speak to you and listen closely with your ears."

  • Ezek 3:7
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    7But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me. The entire house of Israel is hard-headed and stubborn-hearted.

  • Jer 1:17-19
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    17But you, prepare yourself; rise and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.

    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

    19They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 48:4
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    4Because I knew how stubborn you are, with your neck as iron sinew and your forehead like bronze,

  • Jer 15:20
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    20I will make you a fortified bronze wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 50:6-7
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    6I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

    7Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.

  • Ezek 22:14
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    14Will your heart stand firm? Will your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

  • Jer 5:3
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    3Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.

  • Jer 6:27
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    27I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may observe and test their ways.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    7Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

    8I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

  • Jer 1:8-9
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    8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,' declares the LORD.

    9Then the LORD reached out His hand and touched my mouth and said to me, 'Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.'

  • Deut 9:13
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    13The LORD also said to me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

  • Jer 44:11
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    11Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I have set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.

  • Ezek 2:4
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    4The descendants are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says.'

  • Nah 2:1
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    1See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Ezek 28:6-7
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    6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god,

    7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • Ezek 14:8
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    8I will set my face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 9:10
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    10'But as for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I show pity. I will bring their actions back upon their own heads.'

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

  • Ezek 3:26
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    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Zech 7:12
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    12They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts.

  • Ezek 4:3
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    3Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Set your face against it, besiege it, and let it be under siege. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

  • Mal 3:13
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    13Your words against me have been harsh, says the Lord. But you ask, 'What have we spoken against you?

  • Prov 21:29
    69%

    29A wicked man hardens his face, but an upright person considers their way.

  • Ezek 5:8
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    8Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I Myself am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16He has given it to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand; it is sharpened and polished to be placed in the hands of the slayer.

  • Exod 10:1
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    1The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, so that I may perform these signs of mine among them."

  • Hos 7:15
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    15I disciplined them and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

  • Isa 45:2
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    2I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

  • Ezek 12:6
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    6Carry your things on your shoulder in their sight, at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Joel 3:10
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    10Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

  • Ezek 15:7
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    7I will set my face against them. Though they come out of the fire, the fire will still consume them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

  • Ezek 39:24
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    24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and I hid my face from them.

  • Isa 41:15
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    15See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff.

  • Jer 19:15
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    15This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring upon this city and all its surrounding towns all the disaster I pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks and refused to listen to My words.

  • Ezek 3:17
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    17"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them warning from Me.

  • Deut 6:8
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    8Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Ezek 39:29
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    29And I will no longer hide my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Jer 3:3
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    3Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen face of a prostitute; you refuse to show any shame.

  • Isa 35:3
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    3Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.

  • Ezek 8:17
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    17And He said to me, 'Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and continually anger Me. Behold, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

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    16I have put My words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'

  • Isa 8:11
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    11For this is what the Lord said to me with a strong hand, warning me not to follow the way of this people: