'Instead' in the Bible

Then Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as proof to the authorities."

Instead, new wine is to be poured into fresh wineskins.

"And why look at the splinter in your brother's eye instead of giving careful attention to the beam in your own?

That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.

"No one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a lamp stand so that those who come in will see the light.

However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Instead, rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"

Instead, be concerned about his kingdom, and these things will be provided for you as well.

Instead, when you give a banquet, make it your habit to invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Instead, will he not tell him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, get ready, and serve me while I eat and drink; later you can eat and drink’?

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

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.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, stop crying for me. Instead, cry for yourselves and for your children,