ἔμπροσθεν

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.