'Object' in the Bible

In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

"Can any one forbid the use of water, and object to these persons being baptized--men who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?"

When daylight came, they tried in vain to recognise the coast. But an inlet with a sandy beach attracted their attention, and now their object was, if possible, to run the ship aground in this inlet.

It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?

But I, for my part, have not used, and do not use, my full rights in any of these things. Nor do I now write with that object so far as I myself am concerned, for I would rather die than have anybody make this boast of mine an empty one.

But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground," you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action to be decided by a conscience not my own?

For in writing to you I have also this object in view--to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.

All who desire to display their zeal for external observances try to compel you to receive circumcision, but their real object is simply to escape being persecuted for the Cross of Christ.

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

and exalts himself above, every so-called 'god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is God.

For you have not come to a material object all ablaze with fire, and to gloom and darkness and storm and trumpet-blast and the sound of words--

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.