'Cannot' in the Bible

Nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit.

He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot go away unless I drink it, let your will be done."

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come.

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

"No servant can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth!"

Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

since David says about him, "I always keep my eyes on the Lord, for he is at my right hand so that I cannot be shaken.

They said, "What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we cannot deny it.

for we cannot stop talking about what we've seen and heard."

Since these things cannot be denied, you must be quiet and not do anything reckless.

and they cannot prove to you the charges they are now bringing against me.

Paul told the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men remain onboard, you cannot be saved."

What if some of the Jews were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and keep their backs forever bent."

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons,

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you," or the head to the feet, "I don't need you."

This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay.

Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

Now, when what is decaying is clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying is clothed with what cannot die, then the written word will be fulfilled: "Death has been swallowed up by victory!"

because we do not look for things that can be seen but for things that cannot be seen. For things that can be seen are temporary, but things that cannot be seen are eternal.

We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.

We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.

was snatched away to Paradise and heard things that cannot be expressed in words, things that no human being has a right even to mention.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

In the same way, good actions are obvious, and those that are not cannot remain hidden.

Our faith may fail, his never wanes That's who he is, he cannot change!

which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.

Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of atonement. (We cannot discuss these things in detail now.)

Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.

The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him.

When someone is tempted, he should not say, "I am being tempted by God," because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?

A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?

My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

You want something but do not get it, so you commit murder. You covet something but cannot obtain it, so you quarrel and fight. You do not get things because you do not ask for them!

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

With eyes full of adultery, they cannot get enough of sin. They seduce unsteady souls and have had their hearts expertly trained in greed. They are doomed to a curse.

But he was rebuked for his offense. A donkey that normally cannot talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity.

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.

We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one cannot harm them.

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent from their evil actions or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.