'Reject' in the Bible
Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.
And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
I assure you and most solemnly say to you, we speak only of what we [absolutely] know and testify about what we have [actually] seen [as eyewitnesses]; and [still] you [reject our evidence and] do not accept our testimony.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him.
All that My Father gives Me will come to Me; and the one who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out [I will never, never reject anyone who follows Me].
Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment [to separate those who believe in Me from those who reject Me—to declare judgment on those who choose to be separated from God], so that the sightless would see, and those who see would become blind.”
Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject."
You did not despise or reject me though my physical condition was a trial for you. On the contrary, you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.
Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.
and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,
If we endure, we will also reign with Him;If we deny Him, He will also deny us;
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.
holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.
and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of men who reject the truth.
It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven.
and,“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they disobey the word [of God], and to this they [who reject Him as Savior] were also appointed.
For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?
In a similar way, these dreamers also defile their flesh, reject the Lord's authority, and slander his glorious beings.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Cast (676 instances)
- Cull (3 instances)
- Decline (11 instances)
- Decline (11 instances)
- Disapprove (1 instance)
- Disdain (13 instances)
- Eliminate (48 instances)
- Except (291 instances)
- Exclude (6 instances)
- Refuse (146 instances)
- Reject (99 instances)
- Resist (41 instances)
- Scorn (90 instances)
- Spurn (17 instances)
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