Luke 14:18. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke 14:19. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Acts 25:11. For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
1 Timothy 4:7. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
1 Timothy 5:11. But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
2 Timothy 2:23. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Titus 3:10. A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Hebrews 12:19. And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Hebrews 12:25. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
1 Samuel 20:6. If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
1 Samuel 20:28. And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
Esther 4:8. Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
Esther 7:7. And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
2 Maccabees 2:31. For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history: