Lexicon :: Strong's G4214 - posos

“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.

“It is enough for a disciple to become like his teacher and a slave like his master. If they called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more the members of his household!

“A person is worth far more than a sheep; so it is lawful to do what is good on the Sabbath.”

“How many loaves do you have? ” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

“Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you collected?

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you? ”

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”

When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”

“How many loaves do you have? ” he asked them.

“Seven,” they said.

“When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of leftovers did you collect? ”

“Twelve,” they told him.

“How long has this been happening to him? ” Jesus asked his father.

“From childhood,” he said.

Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of! ”

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? ”

“Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?

“If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will he do for you ​— ​you of little faith?

“When he came to his senses,[fn] he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger![fn]

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ’ he asked the first one.

“Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe? ’

“ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write eighty.’

When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Now if their transgression brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring!

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these ​— ​the natural branches ​— ​be grafted into their own olive tree?

For consider how much diligence this very thing ​— ​this grieving as God wills ​— ​has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave ​— ​as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our[fn] consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane[fn] the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?