Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."

"Can anyone refuse water for the baptism of these people ??people who have received the holy Spirit just as we ourselves have?"

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry

to the blare of a trumpet and to a Voice whose words made those who heard it refuse to hear another syllable

See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven.

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?