I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

And after you have read this letter, have it read to the church of Laodicea. In turn, read the letter from Laodicea as well.

The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.

so that what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled:

But he sternly warned them not to make him known.

This fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet:

Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.”

This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: