Refuse

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’

And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”

Soon his wife Jezebel came in and asked, “Why are you so sullen that you refuse to eat?”

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.

Two things I ask of You—do not refuse me before I die:

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!

But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.

Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I have made, very good. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”

…yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”

But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

…when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

…just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.