figure Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any {figure}, the likeness of male or female, figure The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the {figure} of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain i n the house. figure Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the {figure} of him that was to come. figure <1CO4 -6> And these things, brethren, I have in a {figure} transferred to myself and to] Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men] above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. figure Which was] a {figure} for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; figure Accounting that God was] able to raise him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a {figure}. figure <1PE3 -21> The like {figure} whereunto even] baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: ~~~~~~