'Exists' in the Bible
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.
For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.
For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it is not entered in the account against us when no Law exists.
Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.
These rules have indeed an appearance of wisdom where self-imposed worship exists, and an affectation of humility and an ascetic severity. But not one of them is of any value in combating the indulgence of our lower natures.
and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless pedigrees, such as lead to controversy rather than to a true stewardship for God, which only exists where there is faith. And I make the same request now.
It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.
And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.