'Longer' in the Bible

"A voice was heard in Ramah: wailing and great mourning. Rachel was crying for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they no longer existed."

“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 you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “Whatever [money or resource that] I have that would help you is [already dedicated and] given to God,”

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me."

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But He was out in deserted places, and they would come to Him from everywhere.

and straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?"

But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, *said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.”

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

Then suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus alone.

He answered them, "You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me."

and the two will become one flesh.So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any longer.

I assure you: I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in the kingdom of God.”

But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer."

But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, “Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well.”

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverted generation! How much longer must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!"

I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’

And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

But when all this is beginning to take place, grieve no longer. Lift up your heads, because your deliverance is drawing near."

for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

After these [things] Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."

From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love [you as] its own and would treat you with affection. But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

I am no longer in the world,but they are in the world,and I am coming to You.Holy Father,protect them by Your namethat You have given Me,so that they may be one as We are one.

Then he said to Thomas, Put out your finger, and see my hands; and put your hand here into my side: and be no longer in doubt but have belief.

they answered him, 'No;' and he said to them, 'Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;' they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer. But he went on his way rejoicing.

Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”

But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

After staying there for quite a while longer, Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut in Cenchrea, since he was under a vow.

When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

Then he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself stayed in Asia a while longer.

And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

"And now, I know that none of you among whom I have gone in and out proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom will any longer see my face.

grieved above all things at his having told them that after that day they were no longer to see his face. And they went with him to the ship.

But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your [customary] graciousness.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.

Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of God’s favor and mercy].

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

Accordingly, she will be designated as an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law [regarding marriage], so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?

But if this is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of actions. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you

and to Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen, who once shared my imprisonment. They are of note among the Apostles, and are Christians of longer standing than myself.

But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.

For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.