Study Desk

For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

For this reason it says,"Awake, sleeper,And arise from the dead,And Christ will shine on you."

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to know about your faith, lest somehow the tempter has tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;

And for this reason God sends upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

Yet for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all His patience as an example for those who are going to believe upon Him for eternal life.

For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they also may obtain the salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,

For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.

And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the trespasses that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.