Impenitence

142 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

11 sections

Amaziah
Amon
Belshazzar
Eli's Sons
General Scriptures Concerning
Jehoiakim and his Servants
Manasseh
Pharaoh
The Israelites
The Rich Young Man
Zedekiah

Amaziah

2 Chronicles 25:16 While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this …

Amon

2 Chronicles 33:23 but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

Belshazzar

Daniel 5:22–23 But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this. …

Eli's Sons

1 Samuel 2:25 If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.

General Scriptures Concerning

Leviticus 23:26–29 Again the LORD said to Moses, …
Leviticus 26:21–24 If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. …
Deuteronomy 29:19–21 because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. …
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
Job 9:2 “Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Job 24:13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Job 33:14 For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.
Psalm 7:11 God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.
Psalm 7:13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
Psalm 10:3 For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Psalm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
Psalm 50:17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Psalm 50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Psalm 52:1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Psalm 52:7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Psalm 58:3–5 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. …
Psalm 68:21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
Psalm 78:8 Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 81:11–12 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. …
Psalm 82:5 They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalm 95:8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Psalm 106:24–25 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. …
Psalm 107:11–12 because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High. …
Proverbs 1:24–31 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, …
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
Proverbs 15:10 Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
Proverbs 15:32 He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
Proverbs 21:29 A wicked man hardens his face, but the upright man makes his way sure.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Proverbs 28:13–14 He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. …
Proverbs 29:1 A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Isaiah 26:10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 28:12 to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
Isaiah 32:9–11 Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. …
Isaiah 42:22–25 But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!” …
Isaiah 46:12–13 Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness: …
Isaiah 48:4 For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
Isaiah 48:8 You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
Isaiah 57:11 Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Isaiah 65:15 You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
Isaiah 66:4 So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Jeremiah 2:25 You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Jeremiah 3:7–10 I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. …
Jeremiah 5:21–24 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear. …
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Jeremiah 6:16–17 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’ …
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
Jeremiah 7:13–34 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, …
Jeremiah 8:4–22 So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return? …
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
Jeremiah 12:11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 13:15 Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 13:27 Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields — I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
Jeremiah 14:1–16 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: …
Jeremiah 15:6–7 You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion. …
Jeremiah 16:12 And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Jeremiah 17:23 Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
Jeremiah 18:12 But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Jeremiah 19:15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as …
Jeremiah 22:21 I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
Jeremiah 25:4 And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
Jeremiah 26:4–6 And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you, …
Jeremiah 29:19 I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD,which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
Jeremiah 32:33 They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
Jeremiah 35:14–17 The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you …
Jeremiah 44:10 To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:16–17 “As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you! …
Ezekiel 2:4–5 They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ …
Ezekiel 3:1–11 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.” …
Ezekiel 3:19 But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
Ezekiel 3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:2 “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against …
Ezekiel 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances— though the man who does these things will live by them — and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then …
Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances — though the man who does these things will live by them — and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My …
Ezekiel 33:4–5 Then if anyone hears the sound of the horn but fails to heed the warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head. …
Ezekiel 33:9 But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
Daniel 9:13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
Hosea 5:4 Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
Hosea 7:13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
Hosea 7:15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Hosea 11:2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Hosea 11:7 My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
Zechariah 1:4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
Zechariah 7:4–14 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, …
Malachi 2:2 If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not …
Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
Matthew 11:16–24 To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: …
Matthew 12:42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
Matthew 23:37–38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! …
Matthew 24:38–39 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. …
Matthew 24:48–51 But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’ …
Matthew 27:4 “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
Matthew 27:25 All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Mark 3:5 Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.
Luke 7:35 But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
Luke 10:13 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 13:1–3 At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. …
Luke 13:5 No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Luke 16:31 Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Romans 2:4–5 Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? …
2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Hebrews 12:17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.
Revelation 2:5 Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Revelation 2:16 Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
Revelation 2:21–22 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. …
Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
Revelation 9:20–21 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. …
Revelation 16:9 And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.
Revelation 16:21 And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

Jehoiakim and his Servants

Jeremiah 36:22–24 Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him. …

Manasseh

2 Chronicles 33:10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

Pharaoh

Exodus 9:30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”
Exodus 9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart — he and his officials.
Exodus 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.
Exodus 14:5–9 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.” …

The Israelites

Numbers 14:22–23 not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness — yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times — …
2 Kings 17:14 But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
2 Chronicles 24:19 Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them, but they would not listen.
2 Chronicles 36:16–17 But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. …
Nehemiah 9:16–17 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. …
Nehemiah 9:29–30 You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they …
Jeremiah 36:31 I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

The Rich Young Man

Matthew 19:22 When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.

Zedekiah

2 Chronicles 36:12–13 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD. …
Jeremiah 37:2 But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.