'Urge' in the Bible

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),

Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

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

for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

Likewise urge the young men to be sensible;

Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

But I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.