'Appeal' in the Bible
If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; it was not as though I had any accusation against my nation.
Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”
Now I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.
I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,
appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.