'Instead' in the Bible

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God's commandments is what counts.

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.