'May' in the Bible

To: The holy and faithful brothers in Colossae who are in union with the Messiah. May grace and peace from God our Father be yours!

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God.

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body, so that he may present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.

I became its servant as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of the word of God.

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.

and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart.

and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

For he who does wrong will be punished for his wrongdoing, and [with God] there is no partiality [no special treatment based on a person’s position in life].

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are and so that he may encourage your hearts.

Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the epistle from Laodicea that ye also may read;

Say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”

This greeting is written with my own signature "Paul." Remember that I remain imprisoned. May grace be with you! Amen.