'Absolutely' in the Bible
You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
She said to the men, "I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you.
Her father said, "I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!"
When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning's light.
When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was absolutely terrified.
He answered, "I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life."
He answered, "I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life."
They were absolutely terrified and said, "Look, two kings could not stop him! How can we?"
I am absolutely terrified, and you, Lord -- how long will this continue?
May all my enemies be humiliated and absolutely terrified! May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!
The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.
They are absolutely terrified, for God defends the godly.
The commands to fear the Lord are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy and absolutely just.
The princess looks absolutely magnificent, decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.
They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.
The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.
Your word is absolutely pure, and your servant loves it!
"Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"
"Absolutely futile!" laments the Teacher, "All of these things are futile!"
Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people -- an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations."
All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.
But I thought, "I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing." But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were absolutely terrified.
But Paul said to the police officers, "They had us beaten in public without a proper trial -- even though we are Roman citizens -- and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!"
Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."
Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.
But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!
Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.