'Intent' in the Bible
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.
wherefore also I came without gainsaying, when I was sent for. I ask therefore with what intent ye sent for me.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;