'Longer' in the Bible

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me."

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?"

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

He answered them, "You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me."

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." Then no one dared any longer to question him.

I tell you the truth, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer."

Jesus answered, "You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here."

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

Then his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me."

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

"I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

Each of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached of both their fellow servants and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been.

But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels.

Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer --

And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,