14 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards People
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But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.
Meanwhile Peter continued to knock, until at last they opened the door, and were amazed to see that it was really he.
They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.
With earnest entreaty they craved of me the privilege of a share in ministering to the saints in Jerusalem.
On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.
but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.
With many other words he continued to bear testimony, and kept entreating them, saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."
Then Paul went into the synagogue, and there continued to preach fearlessly for about three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.
"And now Lord, listen to their threats, and grant to thy slaves to proclaim thy message with all boldness,
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and told them how Saul had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him; and also how he had preached the Name of the Lord Jesus boldly at Damascus.
Long time, therefore, they tarried there, speaking fearlessly in the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by permitting signs and wonders to be performed by their hands.
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they took him home and explained to him more accurately the way of God.
He continued to preach the kingdom of God, and to teach about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, quite unmolested.
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