Strong's G1893 ἐπεί (epei)

And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

And Israel said to Joseph, After this I will gladly die, since I have seen thy face, for thou art yet living.

And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

And it came to pass when all the men of war dying out of the midst of the people had fallen,

And when the people had completely passed over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?

And when they brought them out to Joshua, then Joshua called together all Israel, and the chiefs of the army that went with him, saying to them, Come forward and set your feet on their necks; and they came and set their feet on their necks.

And it came to pass that when the children of Israel were strong, they made the Canaanites subject, but they did not utterly destroy them.

Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, Verily I will speak, and plead before him.

And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thy hand?

They that reward evil for good slandered me; Because I followed righteousness.

Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, And the torrents ran abundantly; Will he be able also to give bread, Or prepare a table for his people?

Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, Because I kept not thy law.

forasmuch as the king’s word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot.

Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Bishlam, and Mithridates, and Tabeel, and Rehum, and Beltethmus, and Shimshai the secretary, with the rest that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem this letter following;

And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

for their victuals fail them, and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things, that God hath forbidden them to eat by his laws:

Whereas ye have kept covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, not joining yourselves with our enemies, we have heard hereof, and are glad.

Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion, and overthrown Demetrius, and recovered our country;

Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honor:

Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;

for inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.

But because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to accomplish this thing by policy.

And whereas thou didst often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and deliveredst them out of great dangers,

But since it seemed good to thee to exhibit thy glory among thy people Israel, thou didst sanctify this place.

For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.

Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation slew many of them;

And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect,

When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures everyone of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to abjure the Jewish religion.

And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.

So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: For in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, Because they used strangers not friendly:

And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness, But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners And for the day of cursing and chastisement.