SELF-WILL, stubbornness. Forbidden, 2 Chr. 30:8; Psa. 75:5. Proceeds from unbelief, 2 Kin. 17:14; pride, Neh. 9:16,29; an evil heart, Jer. 7:24. God knows, Isa. 48:4. Exhibited in refusing to hearken to God, Prov. 1:24; refusing to hearken to the messengers of God, 1 Sam. 8:19; Jer. 44:16; Zech. 7:11; refusing to walk in the ways of god, Neh. 9:17; Isa. 42:24; Psa. 78:10; refusing to hearken to parents, Deut. 21:18,19; refusing to receive correction, Deut. 21:18; Jer. 5:3; 7:28; rebelling against God, Deut. 31:27; Psa. 78:8; resisting the Holy Spirit, Acts 7:51; walking in the counsels of an evil heart, Jer. 7:24, with Jer. 23:17; hardening the neck, Neh. 9:16; hardening the heart, 2 Chr. 36:13; going backward and not forward, Jer. 7:24; heinousness of, 1 Sam. 15:23. Ministers should be without, Tit. 1:7; warn their people against, Heb. 3:7-12; pray that their people may be forgiven for, Ex. 34:9; Deut. 9:27. Characteristic of the wicked, Prov. 7:11; 2 Pet. 2:10. The wicked cease not from, Judg. 2:19. Punishment for, Deut. 21:21; Prov. 29:1. Illustrated: Psa. 32:9; Jer. 31:18.

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