'Order' in the Bible

This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

That one was not the light, but [came] in order that he could testify about the light.

I did not recognize Him, but so that He might be manifested to Israel, I came baptizing in water.”

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life [after physical death, and will actually live forever].

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.

For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder.

so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

But the testimony I receive is not from man [a merely human witness]; but I say these things so that you may be saved [that is, have eternal life].

Philip replied to him, "Two hundred denarii [worth of] bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little."

Then Jesus, [because he] knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make [him] king, withdrew again up the mountain [by] himself alone.

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these [things] about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order {to take him into custody }.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me or have faith in Me, [at least] believe the works [that I do—admit that they are the works of God], so that you may know and keep on knowing [clearly—without any doubt] that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father [that is, I am One with Him].”

And [when he] heard [it], Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.)

So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, [when they] saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, [because they] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.

Now the Passover of the Jews was approaching, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem before Passover to purify themselves [ceremonially, so that they would be able to participate in the feast].

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report [it], in order that they could arrest him.)

Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.”These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

I have come [as] a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

From now [on] I am telling you before [it] happens, in order that when [it] happens you may believe that I am [he].

And {whatever} you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you {forever}--

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.

I have spoken these [things] to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

"These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

Jesus said these [things], and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, "Father, the hour has come! Glorify your Son, in order that your Son may glorify you--

just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.

When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded [them], and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

"But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.

and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.

And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we [are] one--

I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me.

Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

And I made known to them your name, and will make [it] known, in order that the love [with] which you loved me may be in them, and I [may be] in them."

in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: "Those whom you have given to me--I have not lost anyone of them."

Then they *led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

in order that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled that he had spoken, indicating by what sort of death he was going to die.

Then Pilate said to him, "So then you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this [reason] I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."

So then he handed him over to them in order that he could be crucified.

After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

Since it was the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], in order to prevent the bodies from hanging on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high holy day) the Jews asked Pilate to have their legs broken [to hasten death] and the bodies taken away.

This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you also may believe.

For these [things] happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be broken."

but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.