'Without' in the Bible

Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable.

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,Might serve Him without fear,

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’

And He said to them, “When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” They said, “No, nothing.”

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).

And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.”

That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me.”

The Spirit told me to go with them without misgivings. These six brethren also went with me and we entered the man’s house.

At Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now are they sending us away secretly? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.”

in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?

But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation,By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.

Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;

If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.

There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am.

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.

For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.

Do all things without grumbling or disputing;

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

pray without ceasing;

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And inasmuch as it was not without an oath

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,“The Lord has swornAnd will not change His mind,‘You are a priest forever’”);

but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.