'Appeal' in the Bible

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

Now I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.