Matt.2.18“ A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Matt.5.42Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Matt.18.17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Matt.18.30He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.
Luke.15.28But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,
Luke.18.4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
John.5.40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Acts.7.39Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
Acts.18.15But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
1Cor.4.13when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
2Cor.4.2But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
2Thess.2.10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
1Tim.5.11But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
Heb.11.24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
Heb.11.35Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
Heb.12.25See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.
3John.1.10So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Rev.2.21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
Rev.11.9For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,