If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is right.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

But Elisha replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you.” Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.

That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the Lord.

They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.