The infirm man answered Him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is moved, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.

What then, if ye should see the Son of man ascending up, where He was before?

being one of them, saith to them, Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he hath done?

Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham was, I am.

And the neighbors, and they that had seen him before, that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat begging?

And when he bringeth forth his sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him; because they know his voice.

All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not regard them.

Now the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country, before the passover, to purify themselves.

Jesus however, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, and whom He raised from the dead.

But though He had done so many miracles before their eyes, yet they did not believe on Him:

Now before the feast of the passover, (Jesus knowing that his hour was come, when He should pass out of this world unto the Father, as He had loved his own, who were yet in the world, He loved them unto the end:)

And I tell you now, before it come, that when it comes to pass ye may believe that I am the Messiah.

And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it cometh to pass ye may believe.

and now, O Father, glorify Thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was made.

Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For they did not before understand the scripture, that He must rise from the dead.

And after eight days his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came (the doors being shut as before) and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you.

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

For David saith concerning Him, "I set the Lord always before me, for He is at my right hand, that I should not be moved: therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied before Pilate, when he determined to release Him.

And through faith in his name, hath strengthened this man, whom ye see and know: his name, I say, and saith in Him, hath wrought this perfect cure before you all.

and He may send Jesus Christ, who was before preached unto you:

by what means he is cured, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, but whom God hath raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole.

(whom Thou hast anointed,) to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had before determined to be done.

And hearing this, they went early in the morning into the temple and taught the people. But the high priest being come, and they that were with him, to the council-chamber, they called together the Sanhedrim, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent orders to the prison that they should be brought before them.

and told them, saying, the prison we found shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we opened them, we found no body within.

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

These they set before the apostles; who, when they had prayed, laid their hands upon them.

And he said, "Brethren and fathers, hearken,---The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. And they made a calf in those days,

and which our fathers receiving, they with Joshua, brought into the territory of the nations, whom God drove out from before the face of our fathers, till the days of David, who found favor in the sight of God,

But there was before in the city a man named Simon practising magic and bewitching the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great person.

And the portion of scripture, which he was reading, was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before it's shearer is dumb, so He opened not his mouth:

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

and he looking earnestly at him, and being afraid, said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up as a memorial before God.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting till this hour, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, when behold a man stood before me in bright raiment,

and said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are remembered before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast done well that thou art come. And now we are all here present before God, to hear all the things which God hath charged thee with to us.

but to witnesses before appointed by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him, after He rose from the dead.

But Peter began and laid the matter in order before them,

John having preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

And the priest of Jupiter, whose image was before the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and with the people would have offered sacrifices to them.

Then he called for lights, and sprang in, and being in a tremor fell down before Paul and Silas:

and hath made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the seasons before-appointed them, and the bounds of their habitation;

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him even before the tribunal: but Gallio did not concern himself about the matter.

And he came to Esphesus, and left them there: but before his departure he himself went into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

But as some were hardened and refractory, speaking evil of the way of life before the multitude, he departed from them, and took away the disciples with him, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

And a great number of those that had used inquisitive arts, brought the books, and burned them before them all: and they computed the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Tychicus and Trophimus, who went before and stayed for us at Troas.

But we went before to the ship, and sailed to Assos, being there to take in Paul: for so he had appointed, designing himself to go on foot.

(For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they thought Paul had brought into the temple.)

Art not thou that Egyptian, who before this madest a sedition, and didst lead out into the wilderness four thousand murtherers?

And he said, The God of our Fathers hath before appointed thee to know his will, and to see the just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

And on the morrow, desiring to know for certain what he was accused of by the Jews, he loosed him from his bonds, and ordered the chief priests and all their council to attend; and he brought down Paul, and set him before them:

and Paul looking earnestly at the sanhedrim, said, "Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God even to this day:"

Now therefore do ye with the rest of the sanhedrim signify to the tribune, that he would bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you would examine more accurately some things concerning him: and we are ready to dispatch him before he come near you."

But an ambush, which was going to be laid for the man by the Jews, being discovered to me, immediately I sent him to thee, telling his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.

who, when they came into Cesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

And after five days, the high-priest Ananias came down with the elders, and one Tertulius an orator, who appeared before the governor against Paul.

who ought to have been here before thee, and make good their charge, if they had any thing against me.

Or let these themselves say, if they found any crime in me, when I stood before the sanhedrim;

And the high-priest and principal men among the Jews, appeared before him against Paul, and made application to him,

And when he had staid among them more than ten days, he went down to Cesarea, and the next day sitting on the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought before him.

But Festus, being desirous to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there to be tried concerning these things before me?

Therefore when they were come hither, making no delay, I sat on the tribunal the next day, and ordered the man to be brought before me.

Concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to our sovereign: wherefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination is made I may have somewhat to write.

"O king Agrippa, I think myself happy, that I am this day to make my defence before thee, concerning all the things which I am accused of by the Jews:

knowing me before, (if they would testify it,) that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a pharisee.

Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Cesar, and behold God hath given thee all that are sailing with thee.

separated unto the gospel of God, (which He had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) concerning his Son,

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

"What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath something to boast of; but this he hath not before God:

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

But why dost thou censure thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? since we shall all stand before the tribunal of Christ;

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling-block or scandal before a brother.

Thou who hast faith, have it to thyself before God: and happy is he that condemneth not himself in what he alloweth himself to do.

Salute Andronicus and Junias my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are men of note among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the worlds for our glory:

Wherefore judge nothing before the time; even until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every one have praise from God.

Dare any of you, having a matter of complaint against another, try it before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

and if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and ye have a mind to go, whatever is set before you, eat, asking no questions for conscience-sake.

And if any thing be revealed to another sitting by, let the first have done speaking before the other begins.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that every one may receive for the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it were good or bad.

For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I said before that ye are so much in our hearts that we could live and die with you.

Therefore shew to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and the justness of our boasting concerning you.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go first to you, and before our coming to collect your bounty beforementioned, that it may be ready, as of munificence, and not of force.

Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.

I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare:

nor went I up to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before me, but I departed into Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus.

(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.