'Refused' in the Bible

ע AyinAll the while our eyes were failingas we looked in vain for assistance;we watched from our towersfor a nation that refused to help.

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Her priests have violated my Law and profaned my sacred things. They didn't differentiate between what's sacred and what's common. They didn't instruct others to discern clean from unclean things. They refused to keep my Sabbaths.

Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold -- which they used in worshiping Baal!

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;

A voice was heard in Ramah,weeping, and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children;and she refused to be consoled,because they were no more.

But he refused and had him thrown into prison until he could repay the debt.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.

Jesus did not let him [come], but [instead] He said to him, “Go home to your family and tell them all the great things that the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you.”

Here they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He refused it.

When they heard that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, they refused to believe Mary.

Later, Jesus appeared to the eleven [disciples] themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He called them to account for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen [from death].

but the villagers refused to welcome him, because he was determined to go to Jerusalem.

But he who denies Me before men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

For a while the judge refused. But later, he told himself, "I don't fear God or respect people,

And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

but our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and wished to return to Egypt.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

They asked him to stay longer, but he refused.

But when some people became stubborn, refused to believe, and slandered the Way in front of the people, Paul left them, taking his disciples away with him, and held daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

And to whom did He swear [an oath] that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [those who would not listen to His word]?

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

By faith Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed along with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies [sent by the sons of Israel] in peace.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in his own heart: he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, in that he has refused to accept the testimony which God has given about His Son.

Now I want to remind you, although you are fully informed once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe [who refused to trust and obey and rely on Him].

I gave her time to repent, but she refused to repent of her immorality.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.

Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.