and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.

in order that I may not seem as it were to terrify you by my letters.

in order to preach the good-news beyond you, not to boast in another measure, in things prepared.

Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?

I robbed other churches by accepting [more than their share of] financial support for my ministry to you.

But what I am doing I will keep doing, [for I am determined to keep this independence] in order to cut off the claim of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things they brag about.

Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if [you do], accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little.

What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:

However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.

even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.

And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

I have become foolish [i.e., by my boasting], but you made me do it [i.e., in order to vindicate myself]. For I should have been commended by you [i.e., for my effective ministry there in Corinth], because I was not inferior in any way to those "super apostles" [See 11:5], even though I am nothing.

All this time you have been thinking that we are [merely] defending ourselves to you. It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking [as one] in Christ; and everything, dearly beloved, is to strengthen you [spiritually].

But I pray to God that you may do nothing wrong. Not so that we [and our teaching] may appear to be approved, but that you may continue doing what is right, even though we [by comparison] may seem to have failed.

Because of this, I am writing these [things] [although I] am absent, in order that [when I] am present I may not have to act severely according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

who gave Himself [as a sacrifice to atone] for our sins [to save and sanctify us] so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father—

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel [about] him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem, in order to become personally acquainted with Peter; and I remained with him fifteen days:

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.

and [when] James and Cephas and John--those thought to be pillars--acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right [hand] of fellowship, in order that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.

yet we know that a man is not justified [and placed in right standing with God] by works of the Law, but [only] through faith in [God’s beloved Son,] Christ Jesus. And even we [as Jews] have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law. By observing the Law no one will ever be justified [declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty].

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

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

Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise.

Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.

So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith.

in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption.

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].

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.

For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh [that is, in the fact that they convinced you to be circumcised].

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

for a dispensation at the fullness of the times, in order that he might bring together for himself all things in the Christ, both those which are in the heavens, and those which are on earth;

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

in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may grant unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the perfect knowledge of himself;

Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

But God, being [so very] rich in mercy, because of His great and wonderful love with which He loved us,

in order that he might show in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

not of works, in order that no one may boast:

invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, [thus] making peace,

and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity ??10 intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,

in order that he may give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the inner man;

in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all [things].

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,

in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.

"in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,

for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak.

But in order that ye also may know what concerns me, how I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make all things known to you;

whom I sent to you unto this same thing, in order that you may know the affairs concerning us, and he may comfort your hearts.

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

in order for my bonds in Christ to became apparent in the whole Praetorium, and in all the others.

I am doubly press'd between my desire to depart, in order to be with Christ, which is by far the best for ME;

In order that, your matter of boasting, may be more abundant in Christ Jesus, regarding me, through my own presence again with you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

I am hoping, however, in the Lord Jesus - Timothy, shortly, to send unto you, in order that, I also, may be of cheerful soul, when I have ascertained the things that concern you.

For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that [when] you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

But more than that, I count everything as loss compared to the priceless privilege and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord [and of growing more deeply and thoroughly acquainted with Him—a joy unequaled]. For His sake I have lost everything, and I consider it all garbage, so that I may gain Christ,

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

[It is] not that I have already arrived at the goal [of spiritual maturity], or have already been made perfectly [righteous], but I am pushing onward in order to take hold of what Christ Jesus took hold of me for [i.e., to receive all that Christ intended for me].

Only let us stay true to what we have already attained.

who will transform the body of our lowliness, in order for it to become similar in form to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power even to subject all things to himself.

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."

in order for you to become examples to all those who believe, in Macedonia and in Achaia.

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.