Study Desk

but he was told of their plan. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

The next day, as they were on their way and coming near Joppa, Peter went up on the roof of the house about noon in order to pray.

The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the fort, and he told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him.

The harbor was not a good one to spend the winter in; so almost everyone was in favor of putting out to sea and trying to reach Phoenix, if possible, in order to spend the winter there. Phoenix is a harbor in Crete that faces southwest and northwest.

I beg you, then, eat some food; you need it in order to survive. Not even a hair of your heads will be lost."

The soldiers made a plan to kill all the prisoners, in order to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping.

Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.

For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong.

Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury.

Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.

God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people's sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus.

But those who depend on faith, not on deeds, and who believe in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is this faith that God takes into account in order to put them right with himself.

Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.

Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.

For the scripture says to the king of Egypt, "I made you king in order to use you to show my power and to spread my fame over the whole world."

For Christ died and rose to life in order to be the Lord of the living and of the dead.

Instead, we should all please other believers for their own good, in order to build them up in the faith.

Christ did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the Good News, and to tell it without using the language of human wisdom, in order to make sure that Christ's death on the cross is not robbed of its power.

God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.

He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.