'May' in the Bible

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

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."

in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

"Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

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

Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."

For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder.

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved.

and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.

Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."

"Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."

I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this, and went away and hid Himself from them.

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

From this time forward I tell you things before they happen, in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;

even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages.

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

"But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.

and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you also may believe.

But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.