'Longer' in the Bible

they answered him, 'No;' and he said to them, 'Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;' they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”

But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

After staying there for quite a while longer, Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut in Cenchrea, since he was under a vow.

When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

Then he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself stayed in Asia a while longer.

And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

"And now, I know that none of you among whom I have gone in and out proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom will any longer see my face.

grieved above all things at his having told them that after that day they were no longer to see his face. And they went with him to the ship.

But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your [customary] graciousness.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.

Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of God’s favor and mercy].

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

Accordingly, she will be designated as an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law [regarding marriage], so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?

But if this is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of actions. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you

and to Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen, who once shared my imprisonment. They are of note among the Apostles, and are Christians of longer standing than myself.

But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.

For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.

Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave—as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but even more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

So a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were going to be killed just as they had been.

They will no longer hunger;they will no longer thirst;the sun will no longer strike them,nor will any heat.

And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer.

Every island vanished, and the mountains could no longer be found.

The beast that you saw existed once, but is no longer, and is going to crawl out of the bottomless pit and then proceed to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.

The beast that was and is no longer is the eighth king, but it belongs with the seven kings and goes to its destruction.

The merchants of the earth will also weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any longer—

The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them.

Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.

And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in you any longer;

and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.

He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.Death will no longer exist;grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,because the previous things have passed away.

and there will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His slaves will serve Him.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.