But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

(for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,)

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth."

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;

if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.

You will say then, The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.

For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might show mercy to all.

For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain the Jews. To those who are under the Law, I became as under the Law, so that I might gain those who are under the Law.

To those who are outside Law, I became as outside Law (not being outside law to God, but under the Law to Christ), so that I might gain those who are outside Law.

To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.

And this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I might be partaker of it with you.

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.

yet in a church I desire to speak five words with my mind, so that I might also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit,

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

with much beseeching, begging us that they might receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.

For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,

so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters.

For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .

Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father,

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.

For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.

so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So that the Law has become a trainer of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

that He might redeem those under Law, so that we might receive the adoption of sons.

and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, the ones believing according to the working of His mighty strength

so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;

and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.

so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

He who descended is the same also as He who ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.)

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.

though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.

if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,

that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

I sent him to you for this very purpose, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.

neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you

Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.

This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Faithful is the Word, and as to these things, I desire that you strongly affirm that those believing God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

whom I resolved to retain with myself, so that for you he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel.

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us,

And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

For truly they chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;