'May' in the Bible

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also it is with you;

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.

And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

And this word , Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Now if we put the horses bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

if any man speaketh,'speaking as it were oracles of God; is any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.

Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:

and these things we write, that our joy may be made full.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And now, my little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

Having many things to write unto you, I would not write them with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.

We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

And I heard the voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.