For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius.

At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal, to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me.

Then He said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured and added to you.

And He said: “How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! Take note—your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

Woe to you
when all people speak well of you,
for this is the way their ancestors
used to treat the false prophets.

Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over—will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Jesus said, “Mary.”

Turning around, she said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!”—which means “Teacher.”

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple complex. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

After hoisting it up, they used ropes and tackle and girded the ship. Then, fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the drift-anchor, and in this way they were driven along.

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,

According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts:

If prophecy,
use it according to the standard of one’s faith;

and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it. For this world in its current form is passing away.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

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.

Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness.

We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites could not stare at the end of what was fading away,

This is why I am writing these things while absent, that when I am there I will not use severity, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.

All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives—God is our witness—

But we know that the law is good, provided one uses it legitimately.

Don’t continue drinking only water, but use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.

Another angel came out of the sanctuary, crying out in a loud voice to the One who was seated on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe.”

Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from earth’s vineyard, because its grapes have ripened.”

Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.