22 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards People

Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh unleavened (unfermented) bread.

She kept asking Joseph day after day. He refused to go to bed with her or be with her.

Balak said to him: Why did you not come when I sent for you the first time? Did you think I was not able to reward you enough?

Samson's wife approached him in tears and said: You do not love me! You just hate me! You told my friends a riddle and did not tell me it's meaning! He said: I have not told my father and mother. Why should I tell you? She cried about it for the whole seven days of the feast. She nagged him so that on the seventh day he told her what the riddle meant. Then she told the Philistines.

Delilah said to Samson: Tell me what makes you so strong. How could you be subdued and tied up? Samson answered: If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else. The Philistine kings brought Delilah seven new bowstrings that were not dried out, and she tied Samson up.read more.
She had some men waiting in another room, so she shouted: Samson! The Philistines are coming! But he snapped the bowstrings just as thread breaks when fire touches it. They still did not know the secret of his strength. Delilah told Samson: You made a fool of me. What is the truth? Please tell me how someone could tie you up. He said: If I am tied with new unused ropes I will be weak. Delilah tied him with new ropes. Then she shouted: Samson! The Philistines are coming! The men were waiting in another room. However he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread. Delilah said to Samson: You still make a fool of me. What is the truth? Tell me how someone could tie you up. He told her: If you weave my seven locks of hair into a loom, and make it tight with a peg, I will be weak. Delilah lulled him to sleep. She took his seven locks of hair and wove them into the loom. She made it tight with a peg and shouted: Samson! The Philistines are coming! He woke up and pulled his hair loose from the loom. How can you say you love me, she asked: when you do not mean it? You have made a fool of me three times. You still have not told me what makes you strong. She kept asking him, day after day. He got sick and tired of her nagging him.

They said: There are fifty of us here. We are all strong men. Let us go and look for your master. Maybe the Spirit of Jehovah has carried him away and left him on some mountain or in some valley. Elisha answered: You must not go. They insisted until he gave in and let them go. The fifty of them went and looked high and low for Elijah for three days. But they did not find him.

The brothers of the poor hate him. His friends leave him. He pursues them with words but they do not listen!

Just tell them you were begging me not to send you back to prison to die there.

But they were insistent and spoke in loud voices asking him to impale him. And they prevailed.

But Peter continued knocking. When they opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

They desired favor against him that he would transfer him to Jerusalem. Then they would ambush him along the way and kill him.

They were very urgent in their concern for this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the holy ones.

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to live in harmony in the Lord.

We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

They taught daily in the temple and in every house. They did not cease to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

He gave a thorough witness with many words and exhorted them, saying: Save yourselves from this indecent generation.

He entered the synagogue and spoke boldly reasoning and persuading about the kingdom of God. He did this for three months.

Now Jehovah behold their threats and grant that your servants keep speaking your word with boldness.

Barnabas led him to the apostles. He declared to them how he had seen the Lord in The Way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

The apostles stayed there for a long time. They spoke boldly by the authority of God who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them the power to perform miracles and wonders.

He spoke boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him home and explained God's word more accurately.

He spread the message about God's Kingdom and taught boldly about the Lord Jesus Christ. And no one stopped him!