for a friend of mine is come out of the way to me, and I have nothing to set before him':

When the Pharisee saw that, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.

I say unto you, Whosoever confesseth me before men, even him shall the son of man confess also before the angels of God.

And he that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

And behold, there was a man before him, which had the dropsy.

Which of you is he that is disposed to build a tower, and sitteth not down before and counteth the cost: Whether he have sufficient to perform it?

I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee,

and he said unto them, "Ye are they, which justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abominable in the sight of God.

And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace. But he much the more so cried, "Thou son of David, have mercy on me."

Wherefore, he ran before, and climbed up into a wild fig tree to see him. For he should come that same way.

Moreover, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"

And when he had thus spoken, he proceeded forth before them, ascending up to Jerusalem.

And they could not reprove his saying before the people. But they marveled at his answer, and held their peace.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you: delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prison: and bring you before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

Let it stick therefore fast in your hearts, not once to study before, what ye shall answer for yourselves:

Watch therefore continually and pray, that ye may obtain grace to fly all this that shall come. And that ye may stand before the son of man."

And he said unto them, "I have inwardly desired to eat this Easter lamb with you before that I suffer.

While he yet spake: behold, there came a company: and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and pressed nigh unto Jesus to kiss him.

And the Lord turned back and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the words of the Lord, how he said unto him, "Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice."

And the same day, Pilate and Herod were made friends together. For before, they were at variance.

and said unto them, "Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverted the people. And behold, I have examined him before you, and have found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him.

And took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a hewn tomb, wherein was never man before laid.

To whom he said, "What things?" And they said unto him, "Of Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, mighty in deed and word, before God and all the people.

And he took it, and ate it before them.

John bare witness of him and cried, saying, "This was he of whom I spake, which though he came after me, went before me: for he was before me."

He it is that cometh after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose."

This is he of whom I said, 'After me cometh a man, which went before me. For he was before me,

Nathanael said unto him, "From where knowest thou me?" Jesus answered, and said unto him, "Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee."

Ye yourselves are witnesses, how that I said, 'I am not Christ: but am sent before him.'

The sick answered him, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. But in the meantime, while I am about to come, another steppeth down before me."

What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before?

"Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him and know what he hath done?"

The neighbours, and they that had seen him before how that he was a beggar said, "Is not this he that sat and begged?"

Then brought they to the Pharisees, him that a little before was blind.

And when he hath sent forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: For they know his voice.

All, even as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John before had baptised, and there abode.

And the Jews' Easter was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Easter to purify themselves.

Then Jesus, six days before Easter, came to Bethany: where Lazarus which was dead was, whom Jesus raised from death.

And though he had done so many miracles before them, yet believed not they on him,

Before the feast of Easter, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of this world unto the father; When he loved his which were in the world, unto the end he loved them;

Now tell I you, before it come: that when it is come to pass ye might believe that I am he.

And now have I showed you, before it come: that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

"If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.

"Father, I will that they, which thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me. For thou lovedest me before the making of the world.

"Ye men and brethren, this scripture must have needs been fulfilled which the holy ghost, through the mouth of David, spake before of Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus:

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great, and notable day of the Lord come.'

For David speaketh of him, 'Aforehand, saw I God always before me: For he is on my righthand, that I should not be moved.

He saw before, and spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul should not be left in hell: neither his flesh should see corruption.

But those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, how that Christ should suffer, he hath thus wise fulfilled it.

and when God shall send him, which before was preached unto you,

and set the other before them, and asked, "By what power, or in what name, have ye done this, sirs?"

be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, and whom God raised from death again, even by him doth this man stand here present before you whole.

for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

saying, "The prison found we shut as sure as was possible and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened we found no man within."

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the chief priest asked them,

Before these days rose up one Theudas boasting himself, to whom resorted a number of men, about a four hundred, which was slain, and they all which believed him were scattered abroad, and brought to nought.

which they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.

And he said, "Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken to. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham while he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

saying unto Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us. For we know not what is become of this Moses that brought us out of the land of Egypt.'

which tabernacle our fathers received, and brought it in with Joshua into the possession of the gentiles, which gentiles God drave out before the face of our fathers unto the time of David,

which found favour before God, and desired that he would faine have made a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

The tenor of the scripture which he read was this, "He was led as a sheep to be slain: And like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.

The Lord said unto him, "Go thy ways: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the gentiles, and kings and the children of Israel:

When he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, "What is it Lord?" He said unto him, "Thy prayers and thy alms are come up into remembrance before God.

While Peter mused in himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold: the men which were sent from Cornelius, had made inquirance for Simon's house, and stood before the door.

And Cornelius said, "This day now four days I fasted, and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Then sent I for thee immediately, and thou hast well done for to come. Now are we all here, present before God to hear all things that are commanded unto thee of God."

not to all the people, but unto us witnesses chosen before of God, which ate and drank with him, after he arose from death.

And when Herod would have brought him out unto the people, the same night slept Peter between two soldiers, bound with two chains; And the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the entry for gladness, but ran in and told how Peter stood before the entry.

when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to Israel.

Then Jupiter's priest, which dwelt before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gate, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Then he called for a light and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

When he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and joyed that he with all his household believed on God.

and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.

Then took all the Greeks Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the Synagogue, and smote him before the judge's seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

When divers waxed hard hearted, and believed not, but spake evil of the way of the Lord, and that before the multitude: he departed from them; And separated the disciples away; And disputed daily in the school of one called Tyrannus.

Many of them which used curious crafts, brought their books and burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand silverlings.

These went before, and tarried us at Troas.

Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days, made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?"

And he said unto me, 'The God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:

On the morrow he loosed him from his bonds, desiring to know the certainty for what cause he was accused of the Jews, and commanded the high priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul, and set him before them.

Paul beheld the council and said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."

Which when they came to Caesarea, they delivered the epistle to the deputy, and presented Paul before him.

Howbeit, there were certain Jews out of Asia, which ought to be here present before thee, and accuse me, if they had ought against me:

Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, "Wilt thou go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?"

To whom I answered, 'It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man that he should perish, before that he which is accused, have the accusers before him, and have license to answer for himself, concerning the crime laid against him.'

"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews,

The king knoweth of these things, before whom I speak freely: neither think I that any of these things are hidden from him. For this thing was not done in a corner.

saying, 'Fear not Paul, for thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given unto thee all that sail with thee.'

For before God they are not righteous which hear the law: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

The righteousness, no doubt, which is good before God cometh by the faith of Jesus Christ: unto all, and upon all them that believe.

There is no difference: For all have sinned, and lack the praise that is of valour before God:

- whom God hath set forth for a mercy seat through faith in his blood, to show the righteousness which before him is of valour, in that he forgiveth the sins that are passed,

How was it reckoned? In the time of circumcision? Or in the time before he was circumcised? Not in time of circumcision: but when he was yet uncircumcised.

And that he might be the father of the circumcised: not because they are circumcised only: but because they walk also in the steps of that faith, that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision.

As it is written, "I have made thee a father to many nations," even before God whom thou hast believed, which quickeneth the dead and called those things which be not, as though they were.