so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge, of God,

strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,

Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church. He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, in order that He Himself may in all things occupy the foremost place.

yet Christ has now reconciled you [to God] in His physical body through death, in order to present you before the Father holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God -- given to me for you -- in order to complete the word of God,

whom we proclaim, [by] admonishing every person and teaching every person with all wisdom, in order that we may present every person mature in Christ,

in order to which I also labour, striving earnestly according to his energy which operates in me with power.

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.

I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive [but thoroughly deceptive] arguments.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

at the same time also praying for us, in order that God may open to us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I indeed am bound;

in order that I may manifest the same, as it behooves me to speak.

whom I have sent to you for this very [reason], in order that you may know {our circumstances} and he may encourage your hearts,

Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.

And tell Archippus, "Direct your attention to the ministry that you received in the Lord, in order that you may complete it."