'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."

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

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

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

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

But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

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

So he called for him and asked him, "What's this I hear about you? You can't be my manager any longer. Now give me a report about your management!'

Then they no longer dared to ask him another question.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with 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.

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

"In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."

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'?

"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but 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 Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

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.

They asked him to stay longer, but he refused.

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

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.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.

for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

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's no longer criticize each other. Instead, make up your mind not to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat.

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.

He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

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.

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

For if the inheritance comes about through the Law, it no longer comes about through the promise. But it was through a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.

But now that faith has come about, we are no longer under a guardian.

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 child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.

The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might earn something to give to the needy.

Therefore, when we could stand it no longer, we decided to remain alone in Athens

But when I could stand it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith. I was afraid that the tempter had tempted you in some way, and that our work had been a waste of time.

16no longer as a slave but better than a slave as a dear brother, especially to me, but even more so to you, both as a person and as a believer.

Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?

Now where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no longer any offering for sin.

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

Each of them was given a white robe. They were told to rest a little longer until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers was completed, who would be killed as they themselves had been.

But it was not strong enough, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

Every island vanished, and the mountains could no longer be found.

The beast that you saw existed once, but is no longer, and is going to crawl out of the bottomless pit and then proceed to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.

The beast that was and is no longer is the eighth king, but it belongs with the seven kings and goes to its destruction.

There will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and the lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him