and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.
Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Thus says the Lord: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,
From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.”
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