'Anything' in the Bible

I did not restrain myself from getting whatever I wanted; I did not deny myself anything that would bring me pleasure. So all my accomplishments gave me joy; this was my reward for all my effort.

though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man --

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward -- and even the memory of them disappears.

What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.

Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study is exhausting to the body.

Who decreed this from the beginning, so we could know? Who announced it ahead of time, so we could say, 'He's correct'? Indeed, none of them decreed it! Indeed, none of them announced it! Indeed, no one heard you say anything!

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!

The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.

You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the Lord's holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.

Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

you say, 'I have not done anything wrong, so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.' But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not committed any sin.'

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.'"

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

Therefore, the Lord says, "Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin. But she has done something utterly revolting!

Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."

I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.

I did not send those prophets. Yet they were in a hurry to give their message. I did not tell them anything. Yet they prophesied anyway.

But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.

King Zedekiah said to them, "Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you."

Some time later Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah brought to him at the third entrance of the Lord's temple. The king said to Jeremiah, "I would like to ask you a question. Do not hide anything from me when you answer."

The officials may hear that I have talked with you. They may come to you and say, 'Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you. Do not hide anything from us. If you do, we will kill you.'

"Find Jeremiah and look out for him. Do not do anything to harm him, but do with him whatever he tells you."

The prophet Jeremiah answered them, "Agreed! I will indeed pray to the Lord your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the Lord replies in response to you. I will not keep anything back from you."

Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

Linen turbans will be on their heads and linen undergarments will be around their waists; they must not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.

"After these things, as I was watching in the night visions a fourth beast appeared -- one dreadful, terrible, and very strong. It had two large rows of iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and anything that was left it trampled with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns.

"Then I wanted to know the meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others. It was very dreadful, with two rows of iron teeth and bronze claws, and it devoured, crushed, and trampled anything that was left with its feet.

O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!

Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army -- there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

He issued a proclamation and said, "In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.

The Lord said, "You were upset about this little plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!"

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once."

The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

But they did not find anything, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

He told him, "See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."

And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked, "Do you see anything?"

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your sins."

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

Then he will reply from inside, 'Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.'

I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man's sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!"

For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing."

and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

Nathanael replied, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip replied, "Come and see."

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.

But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

So because these facts are indisputable, you must keep quiet and not do anything reckless.

But if you want anything in addition, it will have to be settled in a legal assembly.

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to partake of anything until we have killed Paul.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request."

But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

"So," he said, "let your leaders go down there with me, and if this man has done anything wrong, they may bring charges against him."

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

and as they were leaving they said to one another, "This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment."

They replied, "We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) --

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

"All things are lawful for me" -- but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" -- but I will not be controlled by anything.

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him -- for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

We do not give anyone an occasion for taking an offense in anything, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.