'According' in the Bible

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

and He who is searching the hearts hath known what is the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

for the word of promise is this; 'According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

and according as Isaiah saith before, 'Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

according as it hath been written, 'Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, 'How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,

for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, 'There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!'

and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, 'The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, 'Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

but according as it hath been written, 'To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

And to Him who is able to establish you, according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, in the times of the ages having been kept silent,

and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --

according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,

for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

that, according as it hath been written, 'He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'

but, according as it hath been written, 'What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him -- '

and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,

and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth him to know;

According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, 'I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- 'I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

according as it hath been written, 'He who did gather much, had nothing over; and he who did gather little, had no lack.'

and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

(according as it hath been written, 'He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.

That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;

since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words --

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

according to a purpose of the ages, which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,