11 Bible Verses about Not Receiving

And he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep [them].

Then Esau said, "{I have enough} my brother; {keep what you have}."

And he said, "{As Yahweh lives}, before whom I stand, I surely will not take [it]." [Still] he urged him to take [it], but he refused.

Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go [with you] as the man turned from on his chariot to meet you? [Is] it time to take silver, clothes, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male slaves, and female slaves?

I will not take from your house a bull [or] from your stalls a he-goat,

"Who also among you will shut [the temple] doors [so that] you will not kindle fire in vain [on] my altar? I take no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and {I will not accept} an offering from your hand.

And [although they] all were approved through their faith, they did not receive what was promised,

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!

What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.

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