11 Bible Verses about Not Receiving

"What do I have to give you?" Laban asked.

But Esau replied, "I already have so much, my brother, so keep what belongs to you."

But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not receive anything from you." Though Naaman urged him to take it, Elisha declined.

But Elisha responded, "Didn't my heart break as the man was turning from his chariot to greet you? Is now the time to receive money? To receive clothes? And olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, servants, or female attendants?

I will no longer accept a sacrificial bull from your household; nor goats from your pens.

"Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I'm not pleased with you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I'll accept no offerings from you.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

Such a person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.