'May' in the Bible

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

We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

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.

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.

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,

so that I may reveal it as I am required to speak.

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

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.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you.

May He make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you,

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not all have faith.

May the Lord direct your hearts to God’s love and Christ’s endurance.

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach different doctrine

Timothy, my son, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may strongly engage in battle,

Hymenaeus and Alexander are among them, and I have delivered them to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all.

storing up for themselves a good reserve for the age to come, so that they may take hold of life that is real.

Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy,

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.

May the Lord grant that he obtain mercy from Him on that day. And you know very well how much he ministered at Ephesus.

This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil’s trap, having been captured by him to do his will.

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

This testimony is true. So, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith

and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of men who reject the truth.

so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

so that having been justified by His grace,we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

I pray that your participation in the faith may become effective through knowing every good thing that is in us for the glory of Christ.

Yes, brother, may I have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed instead.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us hold on to grace. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Therefore, we may boldly say:The Lord is my helper;I will not be afraid.What can man do to me?

And I especially urge you to pray that I may be restored to you very soon.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,

But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ.May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,a holy nation, a people for His possession,so that you may proclaim the praisesof the One who called you out of darknessinto His marvelous light.

Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

Instead, rejoice as you share in the sufferings of the Messiah, so that you may also rejoice with great joy at the revelation of His glory.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,

May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

And I will also make every effort that you may be able to recall these things at any time after my departure.

what we have seen and heardwe also declare to you,so that you may have fellowship along with us;and indeed our fellowship is with the Fatherand with His Son Jesus Christ.

We are writing these thingsso that our joy may be complete.

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

So now, little children, remain in Him, so that when He appears we may have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, for we are as He is in this world.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Though I have many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to be with you and talk face to face so that our joy may be complete.

Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health physically just as you are spiritually.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has been victorious so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.”

“Look, I am coming like a thief. The one who is alert and remains clothed so that he may not go around naked and people see his shame is blessed.”

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.