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

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

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

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