Bible verses about "stubbornness" | MNT

²³ "But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

¹ "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower. ² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more. ³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours. ⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples. ⁹ "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ "I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² "This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ "This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you, ¹⁸ "do not forget that it hated me first. ¹⁹ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. ²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also. ²¹ "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me. ²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ "He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ "And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, 'They hate me without cause.' ²⁶ "When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me; ²⁷ "and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

⁸ Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idol-worship, sorcery, quarrels, party-spirit, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues, factions, sectarianism, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

³⁰ "I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

⁵ In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.