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ἀλλά

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ἀλλά
Greek transliteration: 
alla
Simplified transliteration: 
alla
Numbers
Strong's number: 
235
GK Number: 
247
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
638
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
particle
Gloss: 
but, instead, yet, except
Definition: 
but; however; but still more;, ἀλλάγε, at all events; ἀλλἠ, unless, except. Ἀλλά also serves to introduce a sentence with keenness and emphasis, Jn. 16:2; Rom. 6:5; 7:7; Phil. 3:8

Greek-English Concordance for ἀλλά

John 7:44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) no one laid a hand on him.
John 7:49 As (alla | ἀλλά | conj) for this mob that does not know the law — they are accursed!”
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) will have the light of life.”
John 8:16 But even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because it is not I alone who judge, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:26 I have many things to say about you by way of judgment; but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) the one who sent me is truthful, and I say to the world only that which I have heard from him.”
John 8:28 So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he. I do nothing on my own, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) speak only those things the Father has taught me.
John 8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) you are intent on killing me, because my teaching makes no headway in you.
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I have not come on my own, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) he sent me.
John 8:49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
John 8:55 And you have not known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I did not know him, I would be like you, a liar; but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) I do know him, and I keep his word.
John 9:3 Jesus answered, “It is not that this man sinned, or his parents; but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) it happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
John 9:9 Some said, “He is the one.” Others said, “No, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) he looks like him.” But he himself kept saying, “I am the man.”
John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.
John 10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 10:5 They will never follow a stranger, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 10:8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) the sheep did not listen to them.
John 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it back again. This command I received from my Father.”
John 10:26 But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a noble work that we intend to stone you but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) for blasphemy; it is because you, a mere man, are making yourself God.”
John 11:4 But when Jesus heard this, he said, “This illness will not lead to death, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
John 11:11 These things he said, and after that he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) I am going there to wake him from sleep.”
John 11:15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there. But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) let us go to him.”
John 11:22 But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.”
John 11:30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) was still in the place where Martha had met him.
John 11:42 I know that you always hear me, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) I said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
John 11:51 He did not say this on his own, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) being high priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
John 11:52 and not only for the nation, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) that he should gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
John 11:54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.
John 12:6 He said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) because he was a thief, and as keeper of the money box, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
John 12:9 When a large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) also that they might see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.
John 12:16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
John 12:27 “Now is my heart deeply troubled. And what am I to say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) for this very purpose I have come to this hour!
John 12:30 Jesus answered, saying, “This voice was not for my benefit, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) for yours.
John 12:42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) for fear of the Pharisees they would not confess it openly, lest they be expelled from the synagogue.
John 12:44 Then Jesus cried out, saying, “The one who believes in me believes not only in me but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) in the one who sent me.
John 12:47 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I am not the one who will judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) to save the world.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and what to speak.
John 13:9 Simon Peter exclaimed, “Lord, then wash not only my feet but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) also my hands and my head!”
John 13:10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed has no need to wash, except for his feet, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) is clean all over. And you men are clean, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) not all of you.”
John 13:18 I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) the Scripture must be fulfilled, ‘The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 14:24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word you are hearing is not mine, but (alla | ἀλλά | conj) is from the Father’s who sent me.
John 14:31 but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) so the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise up, let us go from this place!
John 15:16 You did not choose me, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that the Father may give you whatever you ask in my name.
John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
John 15:21 But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
John 15:25 However (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj), the word that is written in their law had to be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj), the hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
John 16:4 But (alla | ἀλλά | conj) I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things at the start because I was with you.
John 16:6 But (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
John 16:7 Nevertheless (all | ἀλλ᾿ | conj) I am telling you the truth; it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go away, I will send him to you.

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