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Remain deeply rooted in him; continue being built up in him and confirmed in your trust, the way you were taught, so that you overflow in thanksgiving.

Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah.

let your conversation always be gracious and interesting, so that you will know how to respond to any particular individual.

I have sent him to you for this very reason — so that you might know how we are, and so that he might encourage you.

You, indeed, became imitators of us and of the Lord; so that even though you were going through severe troubles, you received the Word with joy from the Ruach HaKodesh.

by trying to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles, so that they may be delivered. Their object seems to be always to make their sins as bad as possible! But God's fury will catch up with them in the end.

so that none of you would let these persecutions unsettle him. For you yourselves know that these are bound to come to us;

so that now we are alive; since you continue to stand fast, united with the Lord.

so that he may give you the inner strength to be blameless, by reason of your holiness, when you stand before God our Father at the coming of our Lord Yeshua with all his angels.

But you, brothers, are not in the dark, so that the Day should take you by surprise like a thief;

who died on our behalf so that whether we are alive or dead, we may live along with him.

He will oppose himself to everything that people call a god or make an object of worship; he will put himself above them all, so that he will sit in the Temple of God and proclaim that he himself is God .

And now you know what is restraining, so that he may be revealed in his own time.

This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie.

He called you to this through our Good News, so that you could have the glory of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

It was not that we hadn't the right to be supported, but so that we could make ourselves an example to imitate.

Furthermore, if anyone does not obey what we are saying in this letter, take note of him and have nothing to do with him, so that he will be ashamed.

As I counseled you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus, so that you may order certain people who are teaching a different doctrine to stop.

But this is precisely why I received mercy — so that in me, as the number one sinner, Yeshua the Messiah might demonstrate how very patient he is, as an example to those who would later come to trust in him and thereby have eternal life.

This charge, son Timothy, I put to you, in keeping with the prophecies already made about you, so that by these prophecies you may fight the good fight,