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While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

But now I am coming to You, and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one-

I in them and You in Me-that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them."

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it." This was to fulfill the Scripture: "They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing." So that is what the soldiers did.

The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of His bones will be broken."

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

"Give me this power as well," he said, "so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

Then Simon answered, "Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me."

to ask for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. "Brother Saul," he said, "the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

"Cornelius the centurion has sent us," they said. "He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home, so that he could hear a message from you."

so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear My name, says the Lord who does these things

This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.