'Request' in the Bible
So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.
Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:
Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.