But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

"No," he insisted, "but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

"I'm right!" Joseph insisted. "Just as I said, you're spies!

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Yet Edom insisted, “You must not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.

The people refused to listen to Samuel. Instead, they insisted, "No! Let a king rule over us instead!

One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.

Naaman said, "Please accept two talents of silver. He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.

(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?”

For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.

They have contradicted the Lord
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”

Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

Jesus insisted upon their not telling any one; but the more he insisted, the more perseveringly they made it known,

But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.

And about one hour having passed, some other man insisted, saying, In truth this man was also with him, for he is also a Galilean.

But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here."

But they insisted with loud voices, requiring that he should be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

But they urged Him [not to go on], saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening, and the day has just about ended.” So He went inside to stay with them.

They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she persistently insisted that it was so. Then they said, "It is his guardian angel!"

but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

When she and her household were baptized, she appealed to us, and said, "If you are really convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she insisted upon our coming.

So there was a great uproar, and some scribes of the Pharisees' party got up and insisted, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose some spirit or angel really spoke to him!"

so that I insisted that Titus, as he had formerly commenced it, should bring to completion this gracious contribution among you too.

{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.