However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

Philip, however, found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through the area, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

However, Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist's work, fulfill your ministry.

However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

However, hold on to what you have until I come.