Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at."

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that it is in my power to release you or to have you crucified?"

"Can anyone refuse the use of water to baptize these people when they have received the holy Spirit just as we did?"

But as it is only a question of words and titles and your own law, you must look after it yourselves. I refuse to decide such matters."

If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor."

train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

Faith made Moses, when he was grown up, refuse to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?