But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.

What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.

But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.