Study Desk

"Watch out, then, so that this word found in the Prophets may not happen to you:

so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, that is, all the Goyim who have been called by my name,"

so that only after Jason and the others had posted bond did they let them go.

God did this so that people would look for him and perhaps reach out and find him although in fact, he is not far from each one of us,

and when Sha'ul placed his hands on them, the Ruach HaKodesh came upon them; so that they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

This went on for two years; so that everyone, both Jews and Greeks, living in the province of Asia heard the message about the Lord.

What you are to do is make it appear to the commander that you and the Sanhedrin want to get more accurate information about Sha'ul's case, so that he will bring him down to you; while we, for our part, are prepared to kill him before he ever gets here."

However, I have nothing specific to write to His Majesty about him. This is why I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa — so that after we have examined him, I might have something to write.

to open their eyes; so that they will turn from darkness to light, from the power of the Adversary to God, and thus receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who have been separated for holiness by putting their trust in me.'

At this point the soldiers' thought was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim off and escape.

because the heart of this people has grown thick — with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, for fear that they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t'shuvah, so that I could heal them."'

For I long to see you, so that I might share with you some spiritual gift that can make you stronger —

or, to put it another way, so that by my being with you, we might, through the faith we share, encourage one another.

This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural;

In other words, since they have not considered God worth knowing, God has given them up to worthless ways of thinking; so that they do improper things.

On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.

Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, "so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial."

Indeed! Why not say (as some people slander us by claiming we do say), "Let us do evil, so that good may come of it"? Against them the judgment is a just one!

In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him,

The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God's free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed , not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had — Avraham avinu for all of us.