Bible Bible Might Quotations

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? / For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: / That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? / And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: / But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, / To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: / And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? / I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; / That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? / They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.