'Urge' in the Bible

I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head."

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.

Now, brothers and sisters, you know about the household of Stephanus, that as the first converts of Achaia, they devoted themselves to ministry for the saints. I urge you

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people,

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you: