For if I be an offender, or have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things of which these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

But refuse profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they will marry;

See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: