12 Bible Verses about Dissent
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and said unto his father, "Not so my father, for this is the eldest. Put thy righthand upon his head."
'If one bear holy flesh in his coat lap, and with his lap do touch the bread, pottage, wine, oil or any other meat: shall it be holy also?'" The priests answered and said, "No."
The angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, 'Knowest thou not what these be?' And I said, 'No, my lord.'
He answered me, and said, 'Knowest thou not, what these be?' And I said, 'No, my lord.'
And he denied it, saying, "I know him not, neither know I what thou sayest." And he went out into the porch, and the cock crew.
And he denied it again. And anon after, they that stood by, said again to Peter, "Surely thou art one of them, for thou art of Galilee, and thy speech agreeth thereto."
Howbeit, his mother answered, and said, "Not so, but he shall be called John."
But your communication shall be, 'Yea, Yea; Nay, nay': for whatsoever is more than that cometh of evil.
When I thus wise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think, that with me should be "yea, yea," and "nay, nay?"
God is faithful: For our preaching unto you, was not "yea" and "nay."
For God's son Jesus Christ which was preached among you by us - that is to say, by me and Silvanus and Timothy - was not "yea" and "nay": but in him it was "Yea."
But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.