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Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.