'Yet' in the Bible

But John tried to prevent him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?"

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

"I tell you the truth, among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.

We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.'

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: 'You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands."

and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised."

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will."

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again."

He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled."

Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is."

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, 'We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.'

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family."

I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man's sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

But Jesus replied, "Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!

Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

but he answered his father, 'Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"

They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again."

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)

Jesus replied, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?"

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy."

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God's judgment?

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed -- the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

just as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.

It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them -- yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;

as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet -- see! -- we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don't know which I prefer:

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

You put all things under his control." For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.