49 Verses About Means from 27 Books

1 Corinthians 8:9

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

1 Kings 10:29

A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

1 Kings 20:39

As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

1 Samuel 6:3

They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.



1 Timothy 6:5

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

2 Chronicles 1:17

They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

2 Corinthians 1:11

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 2:7

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

2 Corinthians 9:4

so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

2 Peter 3:6

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.



2 Samuel 14:14

For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

2 Samuel 17:16

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, 'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"

Acts 4:9

if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Acts 9:36

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Acts 18:21

but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

Acts 27:12

Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.

Additions to Esther 1:11

Now when Mordecai, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he kept this dream in mind, and until night by all means desired to understand it.



Additions to Esther 13:14

For by these means he thought, finding us destitute of friends, to have transferred the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.

Exodus 34:7

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

Ezra 4:16

We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion beyond the River.

Isaiah 64:7

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

Epistle of Jeremiah 6:69

It is then by no means manifest to us that they are gods, therefore do not fear them.

John 9:7

and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

John 10:5

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."



Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver."

Leviticus 25:26

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

Leviticus 25:54

If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."

Luke 16:9

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Luke 21:33

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

Luke 22:16

for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."



Luke 22:34

He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

Mark 3:17

James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;

Mark 5:41

Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!"

Matthew 5:26

Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

Matthew 9:13

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Nahum 1:3

the LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Numbers 14:18

'the LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'

Philippians 3:11

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Proverbs 22:27

If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Psalms 49:7

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Romans 1:10

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Romans 4:8

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

Romans 11:14

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.





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