11 Bible Verses about Not Receiving

Laban asked, “What should I give you?”

And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

“I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.”

But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, I stand before Him. I will not accept it.” Naaman urged him to accept it, but he refused.

But Elisha questioned him, “Wasn’t my spirit there when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to accept money and clothes, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?

I will not accept a bull from your household
or male goats from your pens,

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised,

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.