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Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"
Exodus Chapter 4: Verse 1
But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'
Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?"
The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you."
Numbers Chapter 11: Verses 21 - 23
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he showed himself holy among them. Edom Denies Israel Passage
Numbers Chapter 20: Verses 12 - 13
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
Psalms Chapter 78: Verse 19
When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
Psalms Chapter 78: Verses 21 - 22
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
Psalms Chapter 78: Verse 32
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did.
For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways."
So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my rest."
Psalms Chapter 95: Verses 8 - 11
When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.
Psalms Chapter 106: Verse 7
Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.
Psalms Chapter 106: Verse 24
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah's son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.' "
Isaiah Chapter 7: Verse 9
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah Chapter 53: Verses 1 - 3
'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' "Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
Isaiah Chapter 58: Verse 3
They have lied about the LORD; they said, "He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.
The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them."
Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: "Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
Jeremiah Chapter 5: Verses 12 - 14
"I have loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,
Malachi Chapter 1: Verse 2
"You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible.
Malachi Chapter 1: Verse 7
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
Matthew Chapter 10: Verse 14
"To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
" 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn.'
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
Matthew Chapter 11: Verses 16 - 18
This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: " 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
Matthew Chapter 13: Verses 13 - 15
And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
Matthew Chapter 13: Verse 58
"O unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me."
Matthew Chapter 17: Verse 17
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"
He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Matthew Chapter 17: Verses 19 - 20
For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.The Parable of the Tenants
Matthew Chapter 21: Verse 32
When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.
Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
Mark Chapter 6: Verses 2 - 5
Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"
Mark Chapter 9: Verse 24
Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
Mark Chapter 16: Verse 14
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark Chapter 16: Verse 16
Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
Luke Chapter 8: Verse 12
Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."Jesus' Mother and Brothers
Luke Chapter 8: Verse 18
"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
Luke Chapter 10: Verse 16
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
Luke Chapter 12: Verse 46
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Luke Chapter 13: Verse 34
Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.
At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'
"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
"Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'
"Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'
"The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
" 'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'
"Then the master told his servant, 'Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.
I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.' "The Cost of Being a Disciple
Luke Chapter 14: Verses 16 - 24
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
Luke Chapter 16: Verse 31
I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Luke Chapter 18: Verse 8
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace,but now it is hidden from your eyes.
Luke Chapter 19: Verses 41 - 42
"If you are the Christ, " they said, "tell us."
Luke Chapter 22: Verse 67
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
Luke Chapter 24: Verse 11
but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
Luke Chapter 24: Verse 21
He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?"
Luke Chapter 24: Verses 25 - 26
They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.
He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
and he took it and ate it in their presence.
He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.
Luke Chapter 24: Verses 37 - 45
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
John Chapter 1: Verses 10 - 11
You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
John Chapter 3: Verse 7
I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
John Chapter 3: Verses 11 - 12
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John Chapter 3: Verse 18
He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
John Chapter 3: Verse 32
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
John Chapter 3: Verse 36
"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."
John Chapter 4: Verse 48
nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
John Chapter 5: Verse 38
yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
John Chapter 5: Verse 40
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God ?
John Chapter 5: Verses 43 - 44
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
John Chapter 5: Verses 46 - 47
But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
John Chapter 6: Verse 36
On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
John Chapter 6: Verses 60 - 62
Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
John Chapter 6: Verse 64
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
John Chapter 6: Verse 66
Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
John Chapter 6: Verses 70 - 71
I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
John Chapter 8: Verse 24
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."The Claims of Jesus About Himself
John Chapter 8: Verses 45 - 47
At this the Jews exclaimed, "Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death.
Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"
John Chapter 8: Verses 52 - 53
Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me,
but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
John Chapter 10: Verses 25 - 26
Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.
But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
John Chapter 10: Verses 37 - 38
Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
John Chapter 12: Verse 37
For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
"He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn,and I would heal them."
John Chapter 12: Verses 39 - 40
"As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.
John Chapter 12: Verses 47 - 48
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John Chapter 14: Verse 17
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
John Chapter 16: Verse 8
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
John Chapter 20: Verse 27
Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:
" 'Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.' "
Acts Chapter 13: Verses 40 - 41
But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Acts Chapter 19: Verse 9
and saw the Lord speaking. 'Quick!' he said to me. 'Leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'
Acts Chapter 22: Verse 18
Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe.
Acts Chapter 28: Verse 24
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
Romans Chapter 1: Verse 18
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?
Romans Chapter 3: Verse 3
Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
Romans Chapter 4: Verse 20
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
Romans Chapter 9: Verse 31
But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down)
"or 'Who will descend into the deep?' " (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
Romans Chapter 10: Verses 6 - 7
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Romans Chapter 10: Verse 14
But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?"
Romans Chapter 10: Verse 16
But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
Romans Chapter 10: Verse 21
Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
Romans Chapter 11: Verse 20
Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you.
For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.Doxology
Romans Chapter 11: Verses 30 - 32
But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Romans Chapter 14: Verse 23
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 18
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 22 - 23
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians Chapter 2: Verse 14
Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
1 Corinthians Chapter 14: Verse 22
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
2 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verses 14 - 16
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.Stand Firm
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2: Verses 11 - 12
And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith.
2 Thessalonians Chapter 3: Verse 2
Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.
1 Timothy Chapter 1: Verse 13
if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.A Workman Approved by God
2 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 13
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
Titus Chapter 1: Verse 15
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews Chapter 3: Verse 12
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed ?
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
Hebrews Chapter 3: Verses 16 - 19
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' " And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.
Hebrews Chapter 4: Verses 1 - 3
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.
Hebrews Chapter 4: Verse 6
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
Hebrews Chapter 4: Verse 11
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews Chapter 11: Verse 6
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
Hebrews Chapter 11: Verse 31
See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?
Hebrews Chapter 12: Verse 25
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord;
James Chapter 1: Verses 6 - 7
Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, "
and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message,which is also what they were destined for.
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verses 7 - 8
They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
2 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 4
Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist,he denies the Father and the Son.
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John Chapter 2: Verses 22 - 23
but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
1 John Chapter 4: Verse 3
Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.
1 John Chapter 5: Verse 10
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.Concluding Remarks
1 John Chapter 5: Verse 12
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 5
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars,their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
Revelation Chapter 21: Verse 8
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