2 Timothy 1:8 Do not be ashamed then to bear witness for our Lord and for me His prisoner; but rather share suffering with me in the service of the Good News, strengthened by the power of God. (WEY)
2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Philemon 1:9 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Philemon 1:16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. (WEB ASV DBY)
Hebrews 7:11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? (See RSV)
Hebrews 9:14 how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God? (DBY)
Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Hebrews 12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Hebrews 12:14 but may rather be restored. Persistently strive for peace with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from which no one will see the Lord. (WEY)
Hebrews 13:19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. (KJV WBS)
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. (See NAS)
1 Peter 4:2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. (See NIV)
2 Peter 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (KJV DBY WBS YLT)
2 John 1:12 Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. (See RSV)
3 John 1:13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; (See RSV)
Genesis 27:12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." (See NIV)
Genesis 48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." (See RSV)
Exodus 12:9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. (See NAS)
Exodus 34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; (See NAS)
Leviticus 21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife. (See NAS)
Numbers 10:30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives." (See NAS)
Deuteronomy 29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. (See NAS RSV)
Joshua 5:14 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" (See NAS)
Joshua 22:24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel? (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Joshua 22:27 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come: Ye have no portion in the LORD. (See NAS)
Joshua 22:28 Therefore said we: It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say: Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you. (See NAS)
Judges 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. (See NIV)
Judges 18:19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?" (See NIV)
1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?" (WEB ASV NAS)
2 Samuel 6:21 And David said to Michal, It was before Jehovah, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Jehovah, over Israel; and I played before Jehovah. (DBY NIV)
2 Samuel 12:4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him." (See NAS)
1 Kings 20:23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. (See NAS)
2 Kings 5:13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you,'Wash, and be clean?'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
2 Kings 20:10 Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps." (See RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. (See NIV)
2 Chronicles 18:17 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Did I not say unto thee, He doth not prophesy concerning me good, but rather of evil?' (YLT)
Esther 6:6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?" (See NIV)
Job 7:15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 32:2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Job 36:21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 52:3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)
Psalms 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice. (YLT)
Proverbs 22:1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Proverbs 23:17 Don't let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long. (WEB)
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil. (DBY YLT NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:7 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you. (See NAS)
Ecclesiastes 6:5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other. (WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)
Isaiah 10:7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations. (See NAS)
Isaiah 43:24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 3:10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 7:19 Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame? (See NIV)
Jeremiah 8:3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 19:6 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 20:3 It happened on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 22:10 Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 38:4 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. (See NAS)
Lamentations 3:2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. (See NIV)
Ezekiel 7:7 Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains. (See NAS)
Ezekiel 16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born. (See NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. (See NAS)
Ezekiel 33:11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel? (See NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 34:8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; (See NAS NIV)
Daniel 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. (See RSV NIV)
Daniel 8:9 Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land. (See NAS)
Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings. (JPS NAS RSV NIV)
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh. (See NAS)
Habakkuk 2:16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory. (See NAS)