'Used' in the Bible

With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.

When evening came on, Jesus and His disciples used to leave the city.

Day after day I used to be among you in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But this is happening in order that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.'

Now His parents used to go up year by year to Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover.

Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

For already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert.

Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that whereas, when you were young, you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose, when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you where you have no wish to go."

and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.

Then I remembered the Lord's words, how He used to say, "'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

Now a man who had no power in his feet used to sit in the streets of Lystra. He had been lame from his birth and had never walked.

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

He had been instructed by word of mouth in the way of the Lord, and, being full of burning zeal, he used to speak and teach accurately the facts about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

Towels or aprons, for instance, which Paul had handled used to be carried to the sick, and they recovered from their ailments, or the evil spirits left them.

and, after hoisting it on board, they used frapping-cables to undergird the ship, and, as they were afraid of being driven on the Syrtis quicksands, they lowered the gear and lay to.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.

who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze of the children of Israel the passing away of what was but transitory.

high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come.

concealed in order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom.

referring to things which are all intended to be used up and perish--in obedience to mere human injunctions and teachings?

For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;

Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used to tell you all this?

Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the way it should be used,

For, as we know, when speaking of the seventh day He has used the words, "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works;"

And in the same way he also sprinkled blood upon the Tent of worship and upon all the vessels used in the ministry.

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women who set their hopes upon God used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their husbands.