If I May

And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that i may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

• Sorrow

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. if i be bereaved <i>of my childreni>, i am bereaved.

And i say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, i will slay thy son, <i>eveni> thy firstborn.

Now therefore, i pray thee, if i have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that i may know thee, that i may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation <i>isi> thy people.

• Strangers

if the priest's daughter also be <i>marriedi> unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; <i>withini> a full year may he redeem it.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: <i>yea, though he bei> a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or <i>anyi> that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he <i>isi> a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or <i>ifi> he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he <i>isi> a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

if there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that <i>the judgesi> may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

• Forty

Forty stripes he may give him, <i>andi> not exceed: lest, <i>ifi> he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

But if ye cannot declare <i>iti> me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

And i thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy <i>iti> before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. if thou wilt redeem <i>iti>, redeem <i>iti>: but if thou wilt not redeem <i>it, theni> tell me, that i may know: for <i>there isi> none to redeem <i>iti> beside thee; and i <i>ami> after thee. And he said, i will redeem <i>iti>.

• Government
• Seven

And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if <i>there bei> no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

• Royal
• Cities

And David said unto Achish, if i have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that i may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, i sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that i may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am i come from Geshur? <i>it had beeni> good for me <i>to have beeni> there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be <i>anyi> iniquity in me, let him kill me.

And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that i may have it for a garden of herbs, because it <i>isi> near unto my house: and i will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; <i>ori>, if it seem good to thee, i will give thee the worth of it in money.

• Patriotism

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day <i>isi> a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, if <i>it seemi> good unto you, and <i>that it bei> of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, <i>that arei> left in all the land of Israel, and with them <i>alsoi> to the priests and Levites <i>which arei> in their cities <i>andi> suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

And i said unto the king, if it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that i may build it.

Moreover i said unto the king, if it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till i come into Judah;

• Bribery

if it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and i will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring <i>iti> into the king's treasuries.

{A Song of degrees of David.} if <i>it hadi> not <i>beeni> the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

Inquire, i pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

if so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that i may repent me of the evil, which i purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

if i cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write <i>iti> in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if i will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that <i>there shalli> not <i>be roomi> enough <i>to receive iti>.

• Care

For she said within herself, if i may but touch his garment, i shall be whole.

But if he will not hear <i>thee, theni> take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

• Jesus
• Obedience
• Submission

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except i drink it, thy will be done.

For she said, if i may touch but his clothes, i shall be whole.

But if i do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father <i>isi> in me, and i in him.

And if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where i am, <i>therei> ye may be also.

For if i be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, i refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. i appeal unto Caesar.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with <i>himi>, that we may be also glorified together.

if by any means i may provoke to emulation <i>them which arei> my flesh, and might save some of them.

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as i also <i>doi>.

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that i may not overcharge you all.

But i beseech <i>youi>, that i may not be bold when i am present with that confidence, wherewith i think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

That i may not seem as if i would terrify you by letters.

• Paul
• Fasting
• Forty

i say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that i may boast myself a little. That which i speak, i speak <i>iti> not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, i will glory also. For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye <i>yourselvesi> are wise. read more For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour <i>youi>, if a man take <i>of youi>, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. i speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (i speak foolishly,) i am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so <i>ami> i. Are they Israelites? so <i>ami> i. Are they the seed of Abraham? so <i>ami> i. Are they ministers of Christ? (i speak as a fool) i <i>ami> more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received i forty <i>stripesi> save one. Thrice was i beaten with rods, once was i stoned, thrice i suffered shipwreck, a night and a day i have been in the deep; <i>Ini> journeyings often, <i>ini> perils of waters, <i>ini> perils of robbers, <i>ini> perils by <i>mine owni> countrymen, <i>ini> perils by the heathen, <i>ini> perils in the city, <i>ini> perils in the wilderness, <i>ini> perils in the sea, <i>ini> perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and i am not weak? who is offended, and i burn not? if i must needs glory, i will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that i lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was i let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. show less

Not as though i had already attained, either were already perfect: but i follow after, if that i may apprehend that for which also i am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Likewise, ye wives, <i>bei> in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

• Faithfulness

if any man speak, <i>let him speaki> as the oracles of God; if any man minister, <i>let him do iti> as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.