'Appeal' in the Bible
Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any accusation against my nation.
For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.
Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers,
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,
Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,