25 occurrences in 13 translations

'Order' in the Bible

[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human ImportanceAcquiring Wisdomdiscrimination

[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

Verse ConceptsFalsehoodDeviousnessSalvation By Other Things

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

Verse ConceptsValuing Knowledge

then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

Verse ConceptsHumbling OneselfBeing HumbleForgiving YourselfDebtBeing YourselfHumble YourselfFriendship KjvHumility And Pridehumblenesshumble

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

[in order] to endow those who love me [with] wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

Verse ConceptsTreasureLoving GoodWisdom Gives Wealth

Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.

Verse ConceptsDaily DutyUnceasingAlways Being ActiveWaiting At GatesBlessed In ServiceRejoicing In WisdomSchoolWaiting On The Lordmistress

[in order] to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight [on] their way:

Verse ConceptsPassing By

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

Verse ConceptsLipsEvil DevicesPlottingWinkingMoving Onmovement

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToEducationSchoolFoolsinvesting

The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfAcceptance Of BribesSecrecyEffect Of Bribes

[In order] for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made [them] known to you {today}--even you.

Verse ConceptsTeaching The Way Of GodTrust In God!TrustFaith And Trust

in order to teach you true and reliable words,so that you may give a dependable reportto those who sent you?

Verse ConceptsOrderly AccountsAnswering

When a country is rebellious it has many princes, but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialGovernmentCivic RighteousnessRulersWisdom, Human ImportanceUnsuitable Rulerebellionapostasy

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesTeethOppressorsRace

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