Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham had a being, I Am.

They brought him to the Pharisees, who had before been blind.

And when he bringeth out his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.

All, as many as have gone before me, are thieves and robbers: but the sheep hearkened not to them.

Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, in order to purify themselves.

JESUS then before the days of the passover came to Bethany, where the deceased Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead.

Now, though he had done so many miracles before them, they believed not on him:

NOW before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come, that he should go out of this world to the Father, having loved his peculiar people that are in the world, he loved them to the end.

Now I tell you previously, before this comes to pass, that, when it cometh to pass, ye may believe that I am.

Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I tell thee, the cock will not crow, before thou shalt deny me thrice.

And now I have informed you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.

And now, Father, do thou glorify me with thyself in the glory which I held with thee before the world was.

Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they may also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me: because thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world.

And they two ran together: and the other disciple ran before more swiftly than Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

Men and brethren, it must needs be that this scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost delivered before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the conductor of those who seized on Jesus.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and illustrious day of the Lord come.

For David speaketh concerning him, "I have seen the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand, that I might not be shaken:

But the things which God before announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

and he will send Jesus Christ, who was before preached unto you:

saying; The prison indeed found we fast locked with all security, and the guards standing without, before the door: but when we opened it, we found no person within.

For before these days arose Theudas, saying that he himself was a singular personage: to whom a number of men, about four hundred, attached themselves: who was taken off; and as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

And as to the matters now before you, I say unto you, Abstain from these men, and leave them to themselves: for if this design or this work be of men, it will come to nothing:

whom they presented before the apostles: and having prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

He replied, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear me: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he appointed him governor over Egypt and all his house.

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us: for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath happened to him.

Which also our fathers having received, brought in with Joshua into the place possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out from before the presence of our fathers, unto the days of David;

who found favour before God, and sought to procure an habitation for the God of Jacob.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they killed those who before published the tidings of the coming of that Righteous Person; of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers:

There is for thee neither part nor lot in this word: for thy heart is not right before God.

The portion of scripture which he had been reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before him who sheareth it is dumb, so he opened not his mouth:

But the Lord said unto him, Go: for this man is an elect vessel for me, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the children of Israel:

Then looking stedfastly on him, and being terrified, he said, What means this, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

But while Peter was perplexed in himself what was meant by the vision which he had seen, then, behold! the men which had been sent by Cornelius having inquired out the house of Simon, stood before the door,

Then Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting till this hour; and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, and, lo! a man stood before me in shining apparel,

and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy alms are remembered before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast done well in coming. Now therefore are all we here present before God, to hear all things that are given in charge to thee from God.

not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he was arisen from the dead.

And, lo! immediately three men stood before the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.

Now when Herod was going to bring him forth, the same night was Peter fast asleep between the two soldiers, fastened to them with two chains: and the guards before the door kept the prison.

And well knowing Peter's voice, she opened not the door for joy; but running in, told that Peter was standing before the door.

Now Herod was fiercely bent on war against the Tyrians and Sidonians: but they presented themselves unanimously before him, and ingratiating themselves with Blastus who was over the king's bedchamber, they begged for peace; because their country received all their supply of provisions from the king's territories.

John having preached before his first coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the forum before the chief rulers,

Thereupon calling for a light, he rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas;

Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the tribunal. And Gallio paid no regard to any of these things.

And when some were hardened, and infidel, speaking evil of the way before the people, he withdrew from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

And many of those who practised magical arts brought the books, and burned them before all men; and they calculated the prices of them, and found them worth fifty thousand pieces of silver.

These going before tarried for us at Troas.

Then we going before to the ship, sailed for Assos, intending there to take in Paul: for so he had ordered, meaning himself to walk thither.

(for they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they imagined that Paul had introduced into the temple.)

So on the morrow, desirous to know of a certainty what it was of which he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the high-priest and all the sanhedrim to appear, and bringing Paul down, set him before them.

But it being discovered to me that a design was forming against the man's [life] by the Jews, immediately I sent him to thee, commanding his accusers also to produce what they have against him before thee. Farewel.

SO after five days Ananias the high-priest went down with the elders, and a certain rhetorician, Tertullus, who made their appearance before the governor against Paul.

commanding his accusers to appear before thee: whereby thou mayest thyself be able after examination to know the certainty of those things whereof we accuse him.

Who ought to have appeared before thee, and prefer their accusation, if they had any thing against me.

Or let the persons themselves here present say, if they found any thing criminal in me, when I stood before the sanhedrim,

Then Festus, desirous of ingratiating himself with the Jews, replying to Paul, said, Wilt thou go up unto Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

Then said Paul, I am standing before the tribunal of Caesar, where I have a right to be judged: against the Jews I have committed no offence, as thou also clearly perceivest.

To whom I replied, That it was not customary for Romans to give up any man gratuitously to destruction, before that the person accused should have his accusers produced face to face, and be allowed opportunity to defend himself against the charge.

Respecting whom I have nothing determinate to write to my sovereign. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, king Agrippa, that on a fresh examination taken, I might have something to write.

For the king is well acquainted with these things, before whom also I speak with the greatest freedom. For I am persuaded that none of these events have escaped his notice; for this thing was not done in a corner.

saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar: and behold! God hath graciously given thee all who are sailing with thee.

And so saying, and taking a loaf, he gave thanks to God before them all, and breaking it, began to eat.

(which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

for the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be counted righteous;

What then? have we pre-eminence? Not at all: for we have before proved that both the Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

there is not the fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it speaks to those who are under the law: that every mouth might be sealed up, and all the world become criminal before God.

Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath cause for glorying; though not before God.

(as it is written "that I have constituted thee father of many nations,") before God, in whom he trusted, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth things that are not as if existing.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared for glory:

Even as Isaiah had said before, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha."

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? And thou, why dost thou disparage thy brother? for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.

Let us therefore no more judge one another; but judge this rather, that no one put a stumbling-block or offence before his brother.

Hast thou faith, exercise it before God within thyself. Blessed is the man who condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow-prisoners, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

but we speak the wisdom of God, which had been hid in mystery, which God predestined before the worlds were, for our glory:

Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers.

And if any one of those, who do not believe, invite you, and ye incline to go, eat every thing set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.

For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess.

afterwards he appeared before five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater number remain alive unto this hour, but some also are gone to rest.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he hath done, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

So that we exhorted Titus, that as he had been active before, so also he would perfect in you this grace also.

And in this I give my opinion: for this is expedient for you, who have before begun not only to do, but also to be willing a year ago.

providing what is fair, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

have thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and prepare before your promised bounty, that it may be ready as a matter of bounty, and not as [extorted] of covetousness.

and lest when I come to you again, my God should bow me down, and I should lament over many who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurities, and whoredom, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

I have told you before, and I repeat it, as when I was present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have sinned already, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare you:

As we have before spoken, and I now repeat it again, If any man preach a gospel different from that ye have received, let him be anathema.

nor went up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.

For before certain persons came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

And the scripture foreseeing that by faith God would justify the Gentiles, preached the gospel before unto Abraham, saying, that "In thee shall all the nations be blessed."