Searching for "Lord Jesus" but not "Lord Jesus Christ" in Paul

I'm just curious. When searching for "Lord Jesus" but not "Lord Jesus Christ" in the Pauline corpus, I tried:

"Lord Jesus" NOT THEN Christ

and

"Lord Jesus" THEN NOT Christ

Neither of those worked. However, the following worked:

"Lord Jesus" NOT BEFORE Christ (although this leaves out 2 Thes 1:12 which has a positive search result but also has Christ later in the verse)

"Lord Jesus" NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Christ (this gives the best results)

Question: Why can't I use NOT in conjunction with the THEN operator when I don't want a term to immediately follow another term but it can be somewhere else in the verse?

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Dave Hooton

"Lord Jesus" NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Christ (this gives the best results)

Question: Why can't I use NOT in conjunction with the THEN operator when I don't want a term to immediately follow another term but it can be somewhere else in the verse?

"Lord Jesus" NOT BEFORE 1 WORD Christ is technically best because "Christ, Lord Jesus", if it existed, would be excluded from results using WITHIN.

THEN is technically the same as BEFORE 1-1 WORDS but counts and highlights the results differently, so Faithlife may not see it as compatible with NOT.

John Brumett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1254716#Comment_1254716

"Lord Jesus" NOT Christ list 34 results in the NKJV.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1254810#Comment_1254810

"Lord Jesus" NOT Christ list 34 results in the NKJV.

That works in that instance, but this doesn't:

Lord NOT "Lord Jesus" --> with Match Case

because it excludes 1 Cor 11:23, 16:22 from results given by Lord NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Jesus.

Same problem exists with "Jesus Christ" NOT Lord