About not rejecting offers
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The truth is concerning someone giving or selling us something in the street we can reject that if we want, for it is our choice in that matter, for it is not a requirement that we must do.
We can buy our merchandise, or receive something for free, wherever we want, as long as it is God approved.
What if someone came up to you selling crack cocaine must we buy it, lol.
1Co 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1Co 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
1Co 10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
1Co 10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
But this is the only scripture that I can think of concerning what you say, but the choice is still our choice whether to buy it from them or not, or if they give it to you.
If you buy meat in the street, or a meat market, do not inquire of it whether it has been offered as a sacrifice to an idol or not, for conscience sake, because it could of been offered as a sacrifice to an idol, but if you do not inquire of it no fault to you, for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, and the Lord knows you have to eat, and it might be the only place to get meat to eat, so it is better to not know which then no blame goes to you if it was offered to an idol.
The same if a person bids you to a feast, and feeds you meat, do not inquire of it.
But if you buy meat, or go to a feast, and the person tells you it was offered as a sacrifice to an idol do not eat it for conscience sake, for we are not to eat meat sacrificed to idols, and for the sake of the person providing the meat to show them that God does not approve of it, and to stick up for our beliefs in the sight of the heathen.
But I do not think we have to worry about that too much today as they did back then.
We can buy our merchandise, or receive something for free, wherever we want, as long as it is God approved.
What if someone came up to you selling crack cocaine must we buy it, lol.
1Co 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1Co 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
1Co 10:27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
1Co 10:28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
But this is the only scripture that I can think of concerning what you say, but the choice is still our choice whether to buy it from them or not, or if they give it to you.
If you buy meat in the street, or a meat market, do not inquire of it whether it has been offered as a sacrifice to an idol or not, for conscience sake, because it could of been offered as a sacrifice to an idol, but if you do not inquire of it no fault to you, for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, and the Lord knows you have to eat, and it might be the only place to get meat to eat, so it is better to not know which then no blame goes to you if it was offered to an idol.
The same if a person bids you to a feast, and feeds you meat, do not inquire of it.
But if you buy meat, or go to a feast, and the person tells you it was offered as a sacrifice to an idol do not eat it for conscience sake, for we are not to eat meat sacrificed to idols, and for the sake of the person providing the meat to show them that God does not approve of it, and to stick up for our beliefs in the sight of the heathen.
But I do not think we have to worry about that too much today as they did back then.
Kind of conflicts with neither a borrower nor a lender be? Hmmm 
The verse that comes to mind for me was about settling with someone before they take you to court.
Matthew 5:25 (NIV)
“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison."
I picture them being on the street, on the way to the courthouse…
The verse that comes to mind for me was about settling with someone before they take you to court.
Matthew 5:25 (NIV)
“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison."
I picture them being on the street, on the way to the courthouse…
Are you referring unto blessing him who comes in the name of the LORD?
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Matt 23:39
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke 13:35
As far as the giving/selling part, many will say that believing the Gospel is the same as receiving the Gospel so it wouldn't surprise me that someone will post a rebuttal to this statement that believing is not receiving. And they will cite
the following scripture in 1 Cor 2:12 to support their belief;
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Yet, understanding that you can receive nothing except it be given to you from heaven then I it sounds like 'receiving' is what the giving/selling part of your question.
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matt 13:23
So in conclusion, if believing is receiving then there is no need to say "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the LORD" but saying "Bless is he that cometh in the name of the LORD" isn't receiving which Paul reveals in 1 Thess 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Matt 23:39
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Luke 13:35
As far as the giving/selling part, many will say that believing the Gospel is the same as receiving the Gospel so it wouldn't surprise me that someone will post a rebuttal to this statement that believing is not receiving. And they will cite
the following scripture in 1 Cor 2:12 to support their belief;
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Yet, understanding that you can receive nothing except it be given to you from heaven then I it sounds like 'receiving' is what the giving/selling part of your question.
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matt 13:23
So in conclusion, if believing is receiving then there is no need to say "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the LORD" but saying "Bless is he that cometh in the name of the LORD" isn't receiving which Paul reveals in 1 Thess 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
