Lexicon :: Strong's G1014 - boulomai

So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.

“All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires[fn] to reveal him.

Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

“All things have[fn] been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires[fn] to reveal him.”

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me ​— ​nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

“You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews? ”

“Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name? Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

“Because what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these things mean.”

“But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers and sisters wrote to the disciples to welcome him. After he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.

Although Paul wanted to go in before the people, the disciples did not let him.

The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him[fn] and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. He brought Paul down and placed him before them.

Wanting to know the charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down before their Sanhedrin.

“Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding these matters.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.”

“Tomorrow you will hear him,” he replied.

But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, and so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

“After they examined me, they wanted to release me, since there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.

One and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as he wills.

Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so that you could have a second benefit,[fn]

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually advanced the gospel,

Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone.

I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,

By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

You adulterous people![fn] Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.

The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

Though I have many things to write to you, I don’t want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come to you and talk face to face so that our joy may be complete.

This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome fellow believers, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.

Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus[fn] saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;