'According' in the Bible

and was declared by the resurrection from the dead to be the powerful Son of God according to the spirit of holiness Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:

on that day when God, through Jesus the Messiah, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel.

For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to human nature but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Consequently, brothers, we are not with respect to human nature, that is under an obligation to live according to human nature.

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God's will.

And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

according to his calling and not by actions), Rebecca was told, "The older child will serve the younger one."