'Among' in the Bible

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

And what agreement does God’s sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said:I will dwell among themand walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be My people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort [with] which he was comforted among you, [because he] reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

So we urged Titus to finish this work of kindness among you in the same way that he had started it.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

We are not boasting about work done by others that cannot be evaluated. On the contrary, we cherish the hope that your faith may continue to grow and enlarge our sphere of action among you until it overflows.

If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the One you have already received or a Good News different from that which you have already welcomed, your toleration is admirable!

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelis? So am I. Are they among Abraham's descendants? So am I.

In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.

Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from among the dead,

I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

since the One at work in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in me for the Gentiles.

“We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored [to the point of exhaustion] over you in vain.

For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies,

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us

Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

But each individual man among you must love his wife as he loves himself; and may the wife fear her husband.

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah Jesus:

Do everything without murmuring or questioning [the providence of God],

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

In this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship which God entrusted to me for your sake, so that I might make the word of God fully known [among you]—

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

You used to behave like them as you lived among them.

Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God.

and from Jesus, who is called Justus. These are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are from the circumcision (Jewish Christians), and they have proved to be an encouragement and a comfort to me.

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

and to await his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.

For you know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you has not been ineffective (fruitless, in vain),

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

For this reason, when I could no longer endure the suspense, I sent someone to find out about your faith [how you were holding up under pressure], for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our work [among you] would prove to be ineffective.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly, and that it may be honored the way it is among you.

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.

Hymenaeus and Alexander are among them, and I have delivered them to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Furthermore, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, so that he does not fall into disgrace and the Devil’s trap.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:He was manifested in the flesh,vindicated in the Spirit,seen by angels,preached among the nations,believed on in the world,taken up in glory.

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

You are aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Remember Jesus Christ raised from among the dead, of the seed of David, according to my glad tidings,

And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,

James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)!

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

but a rich man should rejoice in being brought low, for like flowers among the herbage rich men will pass away.