'Yet' in the Bible

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.

And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

and *said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.

But Peter said to Him, “Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.”

And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”

For many were giving false testimony against Him, but their testimony was not consistent.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.

and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

I say to you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.

‘Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”

saying, “Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

And Jesus *said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

and after getting into a boat, they started to cross the sea to Capernaum. It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”

So Jesus *said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”

The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.

Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.

But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.

Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.

Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;

But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.