24 Bible Verses about People Unwilling

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John 5:40

and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

Genesis 24:5

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?”

Genesis 24:8

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there.”

Genesis 24:39

I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman does not follow me.’

Numbers 10:30

But he said to him, “I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.”

Deuteronomy 1:26

“Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Deuteronomy 25:8

Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.

Judges 19:10

But the man was not willing to spend the night, so he arose and departed and came to a place opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). And there were with him a pair of saddled donkeys; his concubine also was with him.

1 Samuel 22:17

And the king said to the guards who were attending him, “Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.

2 Samuel 6:10

And David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the city of David with him; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Mark 6:26

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

Luke 18:4

For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

John 21:18

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”

Matthew 1:19

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

Ezekiel 3:27

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

2 Samuel 12:4

“Now a traveler came to the rich man,
And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd,
To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him;
Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!

Matthew 22:3

And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

Matthew 21:29

And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.

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