11 Bible Verses about Not Receiving

So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own.”

But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?

“I shall take no young bull out of your house
Nor male goats out of your folds.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of hosts, “nor will I accept an offering from you.

And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,

For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.