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21�I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people."

I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me.

This is what the LORD Almighty says: "You who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were there when the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD Almighty, let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.

Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!

"The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah.

On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them.

"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands.

And you will know that I have sent you this admonition so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the LORD Almighty.

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: " 'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' "

so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go home."

Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.

Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches."

"Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him. "But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours."

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."