'Rather' in the Bible

No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And if your eye causes your downfall, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, rather than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire!

Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

But the centurion paid attention to the captain and the owner of the ship rather than to what Paul said.

Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.

I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but rather God, who examines our hearts.

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

But have nothing to do with irreverent and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness,

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

You have loved righteousnessand hated lawlessness;this is why God, Your God,has anointed Youwith the oil of joyrather than Your companions.

and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.