'Anyone' in the Bible

Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

Don’t carry a money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals; don’t greet anyone along the road.

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.”

Anyone who is not with Me is against Me, and anyone who does not gather with Me scatters.

“And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God,

Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say this: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death—ever!”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as anyone had a need.

However, so this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

and laid them at the apostles’ feet. This was then distributed for each person’s basic needs.

saying, “Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

So if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a case against anyone, the courts are in session, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.

So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have informed me about this.”

They didn’t find me disputing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple complex or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.

Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes.

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues.

I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.

The spiritual person, however, can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone.

If anyone builds on that foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Was anyone already circumcised when he was called? He should not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only in the Lord.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.

Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

But if anyone ignores this, he will be ignored.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Marana tha that is, Lord, come!

If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree—not to exaggerate—to all of you.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed.

Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.

I say this to our shame: We have been weak.But in whatever anyone dares to boast—I am talking foolishly—I also dare:

Did I take advantage of you by anyone I sent you?

As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!

to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.

so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

This saying is trustworthy: “If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble work.”