so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory.

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.