24 Bible Verses about People Unwilling

And yet you will not come to me that you may have life.

The servant asked: What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?

You will be free from this oath if the woman is not willing to follow you. Only do not take my son back there.

I asked my master: 'What if the young woman refuses to come with me?'

Hobab answered: No, I am going back to my native land.

Even so they were not willing to go. They rebelled against the command of Jehovah your God:

If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

The elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says: I do not desire to take her,

King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to pass through. Jehovah your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

The man did not want to spend another night there. He and his concubine started on their way, with their servant and two donkeys with packsaddles.

The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.

So he decided not to take it with him to Jerusalem. Instead, he turned off the road and took it to the house of Obed Edom, a native of the city of Gath.

The king was very sorry. Even so he kept his promise to her. He did not turn her down. This also showed his dinner guests he was a man of his word.

At first he refused. Then he thought about it and he said to himself, I do not fear God and have little respect for man.

Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were young you dressed yourself and walked wherever you wanted. But when you become old, you stretch out your hands and another dresses you, and carries you where you do not want to go.

Her husband Joseph was an honorable man and did not want to disgrace her publicly. So he decided to break the marriage agreement with her secretly.

Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth. You will tell them: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says.' Some will listen and some will refuse to listen for they are a rebellious people.

Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the traveler.

The Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, says: Return to me and be saved. You can have rest. You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me. But you do not want that!

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets! You stone those sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings. But you would not have it!

He sent out his servants to invite guests to the feast, but they would not come.

The first son said in answer, 'I will not.' Later he changed his mind and went to work.