Did Not Receive

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

• Inhospitableness

And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

I receive not honour from men.

• Unbelief

I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.