But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

Nor let us try the patience of the Lord too far, as some of them tried it, with the result that they 'were, one after another, destroyed by the snakes.'

See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?

No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"

Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

This I warn you of, and commend not that ye come together: not after a better manner but after a worse.

and [after he] had given thanks, he broke [it] and said, "This is my body which [is] for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

And God hath, indeed, set, certain, in the assembly, - first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that mighty works, then gifts of healings, helps, guidings, kinds of tongues.

Covet after the best gifts. And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

If anyone speaks in a tongue, [it must be] on one occasion two or at most three, and {one after the other}, and one must interpret.

For in this way you can all, one after another, speak your prophetic message, so that all may learn and be encouraged,

by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.

After that, he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, - of whom, the greater number, remain until even now, but, some, have fallen asleep, -

After that, he appeared unto James, then, unto all the apostles,

And, if Christ, hath not been raised, void, after all, is our proclamation, void also, our faith, -

And we are found, even false-witnesses of God, because we have witnessed respecting God, that he raised the Christ, - whom he did not raise, if, indeed, after all, the dead are not raised!

More than that: those who have slept the sleep of death in Christ have perished after all.

But, each, in his own rank: - A firstfruit, Christ, after that, they who are the Christ's, in his presence,

and then will be the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the father; after having abolished all rule, and all authority, and power.

And after everything [else] has been subjected to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subjected [i.e., He will subject Himself] to God, who subjected everything to Christ, so that God may rule over everything.

If after the manner of men,

If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild-beasts at Ephesus, what, to me, the profit? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for, tomorrow, we die.

On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come.

I will come to you after I pass through Macedonia—for I will be traveling through Macedonia—

And because of this confidence [i.e., that you people have such a favorable opinion of me], I had determined to visit you first [i.e., before going to Macedonia. See I Cor. 16:5-7], so that you could have an additional blessing. [Note: The "blessing" here would be Paul getting to minister to them both before and after visiting Macedonia].

This, then, being my purpose, perhaps, after all, with lightness, I dealt with the matter ? or, the things that I purpose, according to the flesh, I purpose, - that, with me, should be the Yea, yea, and the Nay, nay?

After all, if I were to grieve you, who should make me happy but the person I am making sad?

to keep Satan from getting the better of us. For we know what he is after.

For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

if indeed, even [after we] have taken [it] off, we will not be found naked.

For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed [separated by death from the body], but to be clothed, so that what is mortal [the body] will be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection].

So that, we, henceforth, know, no one, after the flesh: if we have even been gaining, after the flesh, a knowledge of Christ,

I have the greatest confidence in you. I take the greatest pride in you. I am fully comforted. After all my trouble, I am overjoyed.

For even after I had gotten to Macedonia, my frail, human nature could find no relief; I was crushed with sorrow at every turn -- fighting without and fears within.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

If then there be any inquiry about Titus, he is my collegue and fellow-laborer among you: and if our brethren be inquired after, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

Moreover, in their prayers for you they will be longing after you, because of the exceeding grace of God that is resting upon you.

Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Since, many, are boasting after the flesh, I also, will boast;

And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations--therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me, like the agony of impalement, Satan's angel dealing blow after blow, lest I should be over-elated.

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

For I make known unto you, brethren, as to the glad-message which was announced by me, that it is not after man;

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

For if I try to build up again what I had already destroyed [i.e., by returning to depend on compliance with the law of Moses to become right with God, after having rejected this system by trusting in Christ to save me], I would certainly be guilty of sin.

Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

Now it is always pleasant to be eagerly sought after [provided that it is] for a good purpose, and not just when I am with you [seeking you myself—but beware of the others doing it].

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

And, we, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of a promise.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

I, however, brethren - if, circumcision, I yet proclaim, why am I yet persecuted? After all, the stumbling-block of the cross hath been set aside.

And as many as shall walk after this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Let nobody trouble me after this, for I carry on my body the scars that mark me as Jesus' slave.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.

And after coming he preached good-news, peace to you, to those far off and to those near,

To him be all glory through the Church and through Christ Jesus, for all generations, age after age. Amen.

till we, everyone - in the unity of faith, and knowledge of the son of God - grow up unto a perfect man, after the measure of age which is of the fullness of Christ:

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

Ye servants, be obedient unto them who, after the flesh, are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto the Christ;

So you must take on God's full armor, so as to be able to take a stand in the day when evil attacks you, and, after having completely finished the contest, to hold your own.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.

but emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, made after the similitude of mortal men;

After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.

For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.