'According' in the Bible

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries (tefillin) wide [to make them more conspicuous] and make their tassels long.

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.

and they gave them for the field of the potter, according as the Lord commanded me.

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;

Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.

According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

according to the promise he made to our ancestors to Abraham and his descendants forever."

And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him,

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

'According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

And those sent, having gone away, found according as he said to them,

and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but woe to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'

And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,

[For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.]

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.

that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'

'According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

'Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,

and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

'For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.

'A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

'Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

Jesus, therefore, said to them again, 'Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

'And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

'But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

Some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved!”

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

and Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, 'If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,

and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law are you ordering me to be struck?”

Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

They had previously known me for quite some time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will be like this--according to {the} way it was told to me.

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, 'And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

according as it hath been written -- 'There is none righteous, not even one;

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?