'Instead' in the Bible
But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Instead, just say the word and my servant will be healed.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved."
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
But he refused. Instead, he went out and threw him in prison until he repaid the debt.
It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
No,' they replied. 'There won't be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this man's blood. You take care of it yourselves!"
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins."
But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."
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.
Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.
But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.
That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.
What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?
Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Won't the master instead say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink'?
Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.
Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.
For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.
So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?
Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God's commandments is what counts.
If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving? But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.
What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,
Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.
although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,
and we did not eat anyone's food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.
For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.
At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me -- may they not be held accountable for it.
Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.
Instead someone testified somewhere: "What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?
You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."
Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.
Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.