Order

So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”

In order to accuse Jesus, they were watching to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.

They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.

So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.

…but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”

But in order not to delay you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

…so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.

…but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

…in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.

But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

…in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

…in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

…as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.

…in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.

So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

…and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.

…where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”