'Long' in the Bible

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;

Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.

Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.

And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

And, as if honouring him, they said, Long life to the King of the Jews!

And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.

And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.

And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.

And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.

But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.

And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them;

And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.

Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

But I say that as long as the son is a child, he is in no way different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.

But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

Do your best to come to me before long:

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:

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.