12 Bible Verses about Dissent
Most Relevant Verses
And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head."
'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?'" The priests answered and said, "No."
Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."
He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."
But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean." And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.
But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean."
Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?
As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
