'Instead' in the Bible

Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

Instead He emptied Himselfby assuming the form of a slave,taking on the likeness of men.And when He had come as a manin His external form,

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.