This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

For this reason ¹  I kneel ²  before the Father, ³ 

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus ¹  for the sake of you Gentiles –

– though mine too are significant. ¹  If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, ²  I have more:

Look, I waited for you to speak; ¹  I listened closely to your wise thoughts, ² while you were searching for words.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, ¹ 

Because they had heard that Jesus ¹  had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts ¹  and were trying to kill me.

“Listen now to my argument, ¹  and be attentive to my lips’ contentions. ² 

Now some of the experts in the law ¹  were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds: ² 

For this reason they could not believe, ¹  because again Isaiah said,

Now ¹  immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, ²  he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts? ³ 

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.” ¹ 

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, ¹  I set aside childish ways.

There ¹  an upright person could present his case ²  before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. ¹ 

When Jesus perceived ¹  their hostile thoughts, ²  he said to them, ³  “Why are you raising objections ⁴  within yourselves?

He addressed ¹  both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue ²  every Sabbath, attempting to persuade ³  them.

So I boast ¹  in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, ¹