'Protest' in the Bible
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.
Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.
And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.
He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.
It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.
So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.
And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.
But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,
If, then, Demetrius and the workmen who are with him have a protest to make against any man, the law is open to them, and there are judges; let them put up a cause at law against one another.
But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.
A man whose opinions are not those of the church, after a first and second protest, is to be kept out of your society;