2,223 verses contain “before” (in the KJV: 1,966, in the BSB: 1,341) — showing 2,101–2,200
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He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.
In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.
In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.
Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.
Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that lieth in wait.
He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his friends he shall rejoice of him.
Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.
Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.
The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the sweet savour thereof is before the most High.
Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath; for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,
Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action.
He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:
He shall serve among great men, and appear before princes: he will travel through strange countries; for he hath tried the good and the evil among men.
He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for his sins.
The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.
The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall be pulled up before all grass.
Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.
Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;
Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;
So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men.
Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.
He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgments.
Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.
Who before him so stood to it? for the Lord himself brought his enemies unto him.
He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs.
So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory, and the oblations of the Lord in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.
Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.
I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.
For we have sinned before the Lord,
Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.
Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.
Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,
And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.
Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.
Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.
For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.
They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.
Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.
And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.
And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, Joacim’s wife. And so they sent.
Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:
And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before his face.
whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power; for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable:
I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences.
Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.
Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.
He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.
Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:
So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.
Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.
But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any longer before Judas.
After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.
Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.
And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.
Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary, and judge thou him according to his wickedness.
Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem:
For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.
For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join with Alexander against us:
Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and sabbaths, and new moons, and solemn days, and the three days before the feast, and the three days after the feast shall be all of immunity and freedom for all the Jews in my realm.
Yet the king entreated him as his predecessors had done before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,
And confirmed him in the high priesthood, and in all the honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief friends.
After this, when king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.
So king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.
Which writings were read before the congregation at Jerusalem.
Moreover he fortified Joppa, which lieth upon the sea, and Gazera, that bordereth upon Azotus, where the enemies had dwelt before: but he placed Jews there, and furnished them with all things convenient for the reparation thereof.)
Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which the kings before me granted thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they granted.