And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
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παραιτέομαι
G3868 · paraitéomai · par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee · Greek
Strong’s definition
to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
KJV usage
:--avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.
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Mapped occurrences
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: