'Really' in the Bible
Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? See, those who wear fancy clothes live in kings' houses.
Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!
But if we say, "From humans'"?" They were afraid of the crowd, because everyone really thought John was a prophet.
Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look! Those who wear fine clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.
Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!
They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!"
Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
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."
And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?
When they heard these words, some in the crowd were saying, "This really is the Prophet,"
So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.
Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'
For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now a hope that can be observed is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?
Live in harmony with each other. Do not be arrogant, but associate with humble people. Do not think that you are wiser than you really are.
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.
You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!
To married people I give this command (not really I, but the Lord): A wife must not leave her husband.
If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it.
Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade people. We ourselves are perfectly known to God. I hope we are also really known to your consciences.
For he says, "At the right time I heard you, and on a day of salvation I helped you." Listen, now is really the "right time"! Now is the "day of salvation"!
I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.
not that another one really exists. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about the Messiah.
Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!)
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.
Here is another reason why we constantly give thanks to God: When you received God's word, which you heard from us, you did not accept it as the word of humans but for what it really is the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.