'Yet' in the Bible

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

Suddenly, a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesus kept sleeping.

"Two sparrows are sold for a penny, aren't they? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's permission.

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

Because John didn't come eating or drinking, yet people say, "He has a demon!'

Or haven't you read in the Law that on every Sabbath the priests in the Temple violate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

But he replied to them, "An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign. Yet no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah,

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom yet doesn't understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can't interpret the signs of the times? An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected,

But I tell you that Elijah has already come, yet people did not recognize him and treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

You'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you aren't alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

At this point, Jesus asked the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit? Day after day I sat teaching in the Temple, yet you didn't arrest me.

He asked them, "Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"

His disciples asked him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, "Who touched me?'"

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

Then he asked them, "Don't you understand yet?"

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, stop being alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Day after day I was with you in the Temple teaching, yet you didn't arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon.

There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha's time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

Because John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, yet you say, "He has a demon!'

Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law, too! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you don't even lift a finger to ease those burdens.

"Five sparrows are sold for two pennies, aren't they? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Consider the crows. They don't plant or harvest, they don't even have a storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don't know how to interpret the present time?"

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice. Otherwise, she will keep coming and wear me out.'"

And yet not a hair on your head will be lost.

Yet look! The hand of the man who is betraying me is with me on the table!

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb cut in the rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

Jesus answered them, "I chose you, the Twelve, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil."

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

He said, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in his name, didn't we? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to bring this man's blood on us!"

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

You received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet you haven't obeyed it!"

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"

Under what circumstances was it credited? Was he circumcised or uncircumcised? He had not yet been circumcised, but was uncircumcised.

As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist.

But if we hope for what we do not yet observe, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

The one who observes a special day, observes it to honor the Lord. The one who eats, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God. And the one who does not eat, refrains from eating to honor the Lord; yet he, too, gives thanks to God.

If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it.

yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

There are, I suppose, many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

Yet even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

through honor and dishonor; through ill repute and good repute; perceived as deceivers and yet true,

as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and yet as you see very much alive, as punished and yet not killed,

as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

But the churches of the Messiah that are in Judea did not yet know me personally.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

"Be angry, yet do not sin." Do not let the sun set while you are still angry,

Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,