'Anything' in the Bible

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of Yahweh?”

But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?”Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”

The king made the algum wood into walkways for the Lord’s temple and for the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of Yahweh?”

You may use the royal treasury to pay for anything else needed for the house of your God.

And our enemies said, “They won’t know or see anything until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.”

Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, suggested. Esther won approval in the sight of everyone who saw her.

The king told Haman, “Hurry, and do just as you proposed. Take a garment and a horse for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the King’s Gate. Do not leave out anything you have suggested.”

Throughout all this Job did not sin or blame God for anything.

Remember that my life is but a breath.My eye will never again see anything good.

Why do you take Him to courtfor not answering anything a person asks?

It roams the mountains for its pastureland,searching for anything green.

I know that You can do anythingand no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

Many are saying, “Who can show us anything good?”Look on us with favor, Lord.

I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.I hate the practice of transgression;it will not cling to me.

He will not be appeased by anythingor be persuaded by lavish gifts. >

The inexperienced one believes anything,but the sensible one watches his steps.

a lion, which is mightiest among beastsand doesn’t retreat before anything,

The heart of her husband trusts in her,and he will not lack anything good.

Can one say about anything,“Look, this is new”?It has already existed in the ages before us.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

The one who keeps a command will not experience anything harmful, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.

No head or tail, palm or reed,will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Overflow your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;there is no longer anything to restrain you.

Isaiah asked, “What have they seen in your palace?”Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”

Also, from today on I am He alone,and none can deliver from My hand.I act, and who can reverse it?”

All who make idols are nothing,and what they treasure does not profit.Their witnesses do not see or know anything,so they will be put to shame.

Approach Me and listen to this.From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;from the time anything existed, I was there.”And now the Lord Godhas sent me and His Spirit.

Leave, leave, go out from there!Do not touch anything unclean;go out from her, purify yourselves,you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

Cross over to Cyprus and take a look.Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully;see if there has ever been anything like this:

The heart is more deceitful than anything else,and incurable—who can understand it?

“Look, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

King Zedekiah said, “Here he is; he’s in your hands since the king can’t do anything against you.”

King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the Lord’s temple. The king said to Jeremiah, “I am going to ask you something; don’t hide anything from me.”

If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king; don’t hide anything from us and we won’t kill you. Also, what did the king say to you?’

But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”

In fact, it is put into the fire as fuel. The fire devours both of its ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred!

When they enter the gates of the inner court they must wear linen garments; they must not have on them anything made of wool when they minister at the gates of the inner court and within it.

They must wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They are not to put on anything that makes them sweat.

The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any diviner-priest, medium, or Chaldean.

Therefore I issue a decree that anyone of any people, nation, or language who says anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn limb from limb and his house made a garbage dump. For there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Ephraim, why should I have anything moreto do with idols?It is I who answer and watch over him.I am like a flourishing pine tree;your fruit comes from Me.

Hear this, you elders;listen, all you inhabitants of the land.Has anything like this ever happened in your daysor in the days of your ancestors?

Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.

But let your word ‘yes’ be ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ be ‘no.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one.

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable,

If anyone says anything to you, you should say that the Lord needs them, and immediately he will send them.”

Immediately he got up, picked up the mat, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

But He kept silent and did not answer anything. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

Then Pilate questioned Him again, “Are You not answering anything? Look how many things they are accusing You of!”

But Jesus still did not answer anything, so Pilate was amazed.

they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’

Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’

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

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!”

And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”“Not a thing,” they said.

But while they still were amazed and unbelieving because of their joy, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.“Come and see,” Philip answered.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!”

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.Farewell.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.

These men went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse that we won’t eat anything until we have killed Paul.

It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.

If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Then they said to him, “We haven’t received any letters about you from Judea. None of the brothers has come and reported or spoken anything evil about you.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

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

One person believes he may eat anything, but one who is weak eats only vegetables.

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. The One who evaluates me is the Lord.

Therefore don’t judge anything prematurely, before the Lord comes, who will both bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the intentions of the hearts. And then praise will come to each one from God.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

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

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

If you forgive anyone, I do too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it is for you in the presence of Christ.