'Anything' in the Bible

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

But let your word ‘yes’ be ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ be ‘no.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one.

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

If anyone says anything to you, you should say that the Lord needs them, and immediately he will send them.”

Immediately he got up, picked up the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Are You not answering anything? Look how many things they are accusing You of!”

But Jesus still did not answer anything, so Pilate was amazed.

they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’

Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”“Not a thing,” they said.

But while they still were amazed and unbelieving because of their joy, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.“Come and see,” Philip answered.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!”

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.Farewell.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.

These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.

It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Then they said to him, “We haven’t received any letters about you from Judea. None of the brothers has come and reported or spoken anything evil about you.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables.

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. The One who evaluates me is the Lord.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

If you forgive anyone, I do too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it is for you in the presence of Christ.

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

For we are not able to do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For the Lord’s message rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,

About the times and the seasons: Brothers, you do not need anything to be written to you.

But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

And if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.