'May' in the Bible

so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.

“I am the Lord’s slave,” said Mary. “May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.

and a sword will pierce your own soul—that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so thatLooking they may not see,and hearing they may not understand.

The seed along the path are those who have heard and then the Devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

“No one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a basket or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see its light.

“No one lights a lamp and puts it in the cellar or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light.

so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host.

The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

“Then the master told the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous money so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.

But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”

so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

When He reached the place, He told them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”