Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched out his arm and began his defense,
Acts 9:15
The Lord said to him: Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel.
Proverbs 1:24
I called you! I stretched out my hand to you. You paid no attention to me.
Proverbs 18:13
It is foolishness and shame to answer a matter before you hear it.
Proverbs 18:17
The first to present his cause seems right. But another comes and examines him.
Ezekiel 16:27
Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you. They are also disgusted with your immoral actions.
John 7:51
Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?
Acts 22:1
Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now.
Acts 25:16
I told them it is not the Roman practice to deliver any man to die before his accusers face him. He should answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Acts 26:2
I would be happy, King Agrippa, to answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which the Jews accuse me.
Romans 10:21
But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who are disobedient and self-willed (obstinate). (Isaiah 65:1, 2)