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"In those times many shall rise against the king of the south; and the men of violence among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfil the vision; but they shall fail.

On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

"Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

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

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

Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.

Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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

in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

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

nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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

And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.

At Damascus, the governor under King Ar'etas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me,

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

then he added, "Lo, I have come to do thy will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.