'Unless' in the Bible

For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house.

“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts."

Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.

Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.”

how he entered into the house of God, in the section of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?

“On the other hand, no one can enter a strong man’s house and rob his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he will rob his house.

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they have washed. And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, jugs, copper utensils, and dining couches.)

And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among the dead.

Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.

how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that any eat, unless the priests alone?

“You give them something to eat,” He told them.“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”

In the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions."

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

“I assure you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop.

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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!”

unless it is for the one thing I shouted as I stood among them: "It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.'"

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”

unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius,

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

I give you therefore to know, that no one, speaking in the power of the Spirit of God, says, Curse on Jesus; and no one can say, Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in other languages, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood?

In the same way, unless you use your tongue for intelligible speech, how will what is spoken be known? For you will be speaking into the air.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.

For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

No widow should be placed on the official support list unless she is at least 60 years old, has been the wife of one husband,

Don’t accept an accusation against an elder unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

Look! I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her practices.

And it was given to him to put breath into the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast both spoke and caused that all those, unless they worshiped the image of the beast, should be killed.

so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.