Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Therefore order that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead.' So the last deception will be worse than the first."

And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!

The Pharisees came and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order.

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might catch him on what he said, in order to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any one in this name."

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

But Peter began and explained to them in order:

Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to persecute them.

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"

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

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be reckoned to them.

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

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

in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

though the twins were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of his call,

in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,

so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.

and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name";

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law I became as one under the lawthough not being myself under the lawso that I might win those under the law.

For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then, at his coming, those who belong to him.

But 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 might gain no advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

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

And what I am doing, I will also continue to do, in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things of which they boast.

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

I write these things while I am absent, in order that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord gave me for building you up, and not for tearing you down.

But it was because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who had slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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

More than that, I count everything to be loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death, in order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach

For even though I am absent in flesh, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves an example for you to follow.

Therefore, though I am bold enough in Christ to order you to do what is proper,

as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Now if perfection could have been through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not one designated according to the order of Aaron?

For it is declared of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

then he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.