12 Bible Verses about Dissent

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.”

If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.”

So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”

So he answered me, saying, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”

But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he went out onto the porch.

But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, “Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too.”

But his mother answered and said, “No indeed; but he shall be called John.”

But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.

Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.