'Thing' in the Bible

Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.

He looked around to see her who had done this thing.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing.

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

They only asked us to remember the poor -- which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

But don't forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.