23 Bible Verses about People Unwilling

yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"

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

I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

But he said to him, "I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred."

"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

And if the man does not wish 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 perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, 'I do not wish to take her,'

But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.

But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.

For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go."

And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."

For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,

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

and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

And he answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind and went.