'Allow' in the Bible
Or how say to your brother, 'Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?
Another of the disciples said to Him, "Sir, allow me first to go and bury my father."
"But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you lock the door of the Kingdom of the Heavens against men; you yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those to enter who are seeking to do so.
But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."
And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,
"Allow us," they replied, "to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left hand, in your glory."
"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."
"Master," said yet another, "I will follow you; but allow me first to go and say good-bye to my friends at home."
But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.
It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.
No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.