Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD of Armies: You shall surely drink.
Thus says the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
Thus says the LORD of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
"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!
The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you."
The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.
He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might 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 the LORD of Armies;
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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