94 occurrences in 13 translations

'Outside' in the Bible

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, by what will it be made salty? It is good for nothing any longer except to be thrown outside [and] trampled under foot by people.

Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly His mother and brothers were standing outside wanting to speak to Him.

Verse ConceptsChrist's Earthly FamilyCrowds SeekingConversationWhile Still SpeakingOutside The HouseSiblingsSibling Love

Someone told Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.”

Verse ConceptsStandingMothersbridges

And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsVisitingStaying Temporarily

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity.

Verse ConceptsWhiteWicked Described AsSepulchresThe Inward BeingBonesFigurative BurialsWhitewashingBeauty Of ThingsUnclean ThingsHypocritesHypocrisyInner Beauty

nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up his outer garment.

Verse ConceptsCloaksOuter GarmentsNot going home directly

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant approached him and she said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”

Verse ConceptsCourtyardDenying ChristChrist With People On Earthdenial

But they replied, "What do we care? Attend to that yourself." Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, went outside, ran away, and hanged himself.

Verse ConceptsJudas IscariotHangingHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLength Of LifePunishment, Legal Aspects OfSuicideThe Misery Of GreedIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyPeople Hung To Death

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

Then His mother and His brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to Him and called Him.

Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningHalf brothersmomsSiblings

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingCrowds Around Jesus

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

Verse ConceptsAcademicsMysteryOutsidersUnderstandingOutside The KingdomGod Revealing MysteriesJesus Using Parablessecretsefficiency

They started laughing at Him, but He put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with Him, and entered the place where the child was.

Verse ConceptsLaughterEntering HousesChrist Driving Out PeopleChrist Going With PeopleMocking Christ

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfExternalsEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedDefilementprepping

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

Verse ConceptsExternalsEntering The MouthBeing Without UnderstandingDefilementprepping

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?"

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaLaying On Hands To HealEyes Cared ForThe Faculty Of Sight

So they went and found a young donkey outside in the street, tied by a door. They untied it,

Verse ConceptsUsing RoadsBinding As Animals

So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard.

Verse ConceptsThrowing PeopleChrist Was Killed

But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” Then he went out [of the courtyard] to the porch, [and a rooster crowed.]

Verse ConceptsDissentNot Knowing About ChristNot Understanding Languagedenial

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

Verse ConceptsPrayer MeetingsWhen To Pray

They rose, hurried Him outside the town, and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to throw Him down the cliff;

Verse ConceptsRejection Of ChristPersecution Of ChristThrowing PeopleDriving Out ChristPeople Getting Upjumping

He was told, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”

Verse ConceptsChrist's Earthly Family

But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!"

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesTaking By The HandGet Up!Raising Children

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeDelay, Examples OfThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersShutting DoorsKnockingNot Knowing PeopleWhere From?Relationships With Boyfriend

In that place there will be crying and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

Verse ConceptsBitingPainSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTeethGnashing Of TeethExclusionChrist Driving Out PeopleMourning Due To CatastropheMourning In Regretnagging

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

Verse ConceptsProphets KilledTodayhumortomorrow

and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineDriving Out ChristWhat Do They Do?Christ Was Killed

They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins [from head to foot], and you [presume to] teach us?” Then they threw him out [of the synagogue].

Verse ConceptsBirth, PhysicalPride, Examples OfRegretting BirthExcommunicationBabies Sinful From Birth

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Verse ConceptsBeing ChosenCharacter Of SaintsPeople Going BeforeInstructions About Following

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

Verse ConceptsNightGoing OutsideDuring One Nightlegacy

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

Verse ConceptsKnowing People

So Pilate came outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

Verse ConceptsAccusations, Against Christ

Pilate asked, "What is truth?" When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, "I find no basis for an accusation against him.

Verse ConceptsAgnosticismWhat Is This?Jews

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing Him outside to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging Him.”

Verse ConceptsAccusations, Against ChristJesus Christ, Sinlessness

Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!"

Verse ConceptsCrown Of ThornsOuter GarmentsPurple ClothesWho He Might Becrowns

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatJudgesLanguagesPavementsJudgement Seat

But Mary stood outside facing the tomb, crying. As she was crying, she stooped to look into the tomb.

Verse ConceptsSorrowUnhappinessWeepingCrouchingJesus TombMourning The Death Of Christ

But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTDiscussionsGroups Sent Away

The young men got up, wrapped him up, carried him outside, and buried him.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCarrying Dead Bodies

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened [the doors], we found no one inside.”

Verse ConceptsKeysStandingPrison KeepersEmpty PlacesShutting DoorsLocks And Barspreppingjail

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

Verse ConceptsIntelligenceStatusTeachers Of The LawJewish SectsScholarsSchools

He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them leave their infants outside, so they wouldn’t survive.

Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifeInfanticideOppressorsKilling Sons And DaughtersThe Death Of Babies

and when he was left outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Verse ConceptsCrimesevangelists, ministry ofMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom Of The SaintsMartyrdom, Methods OfOutside The City

Peter made them all go outside. After kneeling down, he prayed, turned to the body, and said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerKneelingPrayer, Answers ToPrayer, In The ChurchPrayer, Practicalities OfMiracles Of PeterReceiving SightGet Up!Groups Sent AwayPeople Getting UpNamed Individuals Who Prayed

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail

After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.

Verse ConceptsGatesIronLengthPrisonsThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesCity GatesLeavingIron ObjectsFirst OnesSecond Being

And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.

Verse ConceptsVoicesExcitementThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesRecognising People

Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the town, brought oxen and garlands to the gates. He, with the crowds, intended to offer sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsGatesPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesSacrificing CattleWorshipping Men

And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentevangelists, ministry ofPersuasionInciting To EvilStoningPersecution Of The Apostle PaulPulling PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

Verse ConceptsBeachesKneelingPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, In The ChurchPrayer, Practicalities OfPrayer MeetingsSeashoresAll PeopleI Pray For Yougoodbyes

Then the whole city was provoked and confused, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the gates were closed.

Verse ConceptsArrestingShutting GatesPulling People

I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

Verse ConceptsBarbariansGreeksNecessityPreaching Gospel To ForeignersWise Man Or FoolDebtculture

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

Verse ConceptsGreed, Condemnation OfExtortionNature Of IdolatryGreedSexual ImmoralitySexual Puritycheaters

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified [that is, he receives the blessings granted] through his [Christian] wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be [ceremonially] unclean, but as it is they are holy.

Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofMarriage, Purpose OfEncouraging Faith In ChristNot Believing The GospelPeople Being UncleanChildren BlessedFamily SolidarityBaptizing InfantsHusband And WifeMarriage Between Man And WomanWifeLove MarriageSanctificationA Good HusbandLeaving Parents For Spousespousecouplesbeliefmatrimonyreality

I know that this man whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheIgnorant Of FactsThe Bodyweather

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBodyLiving For The MaterialNecessity Of Circumcision

so that you will behave properly toward outsiders [exhibiting good character, personal integrity, and moral courage worthy of the respect of the outside world], and be dependent on no one and in need of nothing [be self-supporting].

Verse ConceptsConsistencyWork, As Ordained By GodAttitudes Towards ForeignersRespectRespecting Your Bodybehavior

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

Verse ConceptsAtonementGod, Glory OfGlory, Revelation OfAtonement, in NTHonorGrace, And Jesus ChristSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfSubstitutionTasteWorthinessExaltation Of ChristChrist, Humanity OfGod's Glory In Jesus ChristGod's Glory RevealedAtonement, By Christ AloneThe Effect Of Christ's DeathAll PeopleAngelsChrist Humbled HimselfChrist's Short LifeThe Grace Of GodSufferingJesus Death

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessExpiationBlood Of SacrificesOutside The CampCorpses Of AnimalsBurning SacrificesRegulations For The Sin Offering

The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name.

Verse ConceptsNewnessPillarsRenewal, Of People Of GodThe Prophecy Towards JerusalemOvercomersMetaphorical PillarsGoing OutsideWriting On PeopleOthers Going DownOvercoming Through ChristTaken To HeavenA New NameCalled By God's NameCitizensOvercomingreuniting

Then I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the outside, sealed with seven seals.

Verse ConceptsBooksScrollsThroneSevenSeven ThingsInside And OutSealing The MessageGod Sitting In GloryBooks In ProphecyFront And Back

But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

Verse ConceptsThree And A Half YearsForeigners In The Holy PlacesTrampling Placesprepping

Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses’ bridles for about 180 miles.

Verse ConceptsArmageddonBridlesBeverages, FigurativeHorsesOutside The CityCovered With Blooddistanceprepping

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Exterior (6 instances)
External (25 instances)
International (6 instances)
Outdoor (2 instances)
Outside (297 instances)
Remote (38 instances)

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