Lexicon :: Strong's G4218 - pote

“But I have prayed for you[fn] that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again

As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.

They simply kept hearing, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

Now from those recognized as important (what they[fn] once were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism[fn]) ​— ​they added nothing to me.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.[fn]

So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh ​— ​called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ​— ​

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again you renewed your care for me. You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives ​— ​God is our witness ​— ​

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.

For to which of the angels did he ever say,

You are my Son;

today I have become your Father,[fn]

or again,

I will be his Father,

and he will be my Son?

Now to which of the angels has he ever said:

Sit at my right hand

until I make your enemies your footstool?

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

For in the past, the holy women who put their hope in God also adorned themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared. In it a few ​— ​that is, eight people[fn] ​— ​were saved through water.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because if you do these things you will never stumble.

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.