Let all things be done decently and in order.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

If those fixed orders depart from before me, says the LORD, then the descendants of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

Thus says the LORD; If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto you in order, most excellent Theophilus,