Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the sons of Israel.
Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Proverbs 18:13
He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
Ezekiel 16:27
See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
John 7:51
"Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
Acts 22:1
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
Acts 25:16
To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
Acts 26:2
"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
Romans 10:21
But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."