'May' in the Bible

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.

lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

'What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

and having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we may be merry,

I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

'Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,

verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'

And a certain ruler put a question to him, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

And those who were present said, Then who may have salvation?

who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'

and having heard a multitude going by, he was inquiring what this may be,

Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that way he was about to pass by.

And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- 'If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send him away empty.

Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.

But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!

every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

And they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what is the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

And he said, 'See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am he, and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

'And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;

For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.

and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?

for I say to you, that no more may I eat of it till it may be fulfilled in the reign of God.'

for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'

And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.

That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

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.”

He asked them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and keep on praying that you may not be tempted."

And when those who were with him saw what was coming, they said, Lord, may we not make use of our swords?

saying, 'If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, 'If I may tell you, ye will not believe;

for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'

Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to Israel is the reason why I have come baptizing in water."

His mother saith to the ministrants, 'Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

and saith to him, 'Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.'

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, 'Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

The woman saith unto him, 'Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'

The woman saith to him, 'I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus then said unto him, 'If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

"You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

Jesus therefore responded and said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

'I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, 'Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'