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Take care not to perform any religious act in order to be observed by men: otherwise you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

from whence the son of man is come, in order to save those that were lost.

Then they brought children to him in order to have his blessing: and the disciples rebuked them.

master, said they, by the law of Moses, in case a man die without children, his brother is oblig'd to marry his wife, in order to perpetuate his brother's name.

tho' they see, they will not perceive, and tho' they hear they will not understand: as if they were afraid of parting with their vices, in order to be pardoned.

for there is nothing conceal'd but what shall be made manifest: nor was any thing kept secret, but in order to be divulged.

but many of the company rebuk'd him, in order to silence him. at which he cry'd out with more earnestness, son of David have pity on me.

saying, master, Moses has left it us in writing, that if a man dies, and leaves his wife without any children, his brother should marry his widow, in order to perpetuate his name.

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

and you, dear babe, you shall be the prophet of the most high: for you shall go before the Lord, in order to prepare his way,

in order to be registred with Mary, his espoused wife, who was then big with child.

in pursuance of which, he went into all the country about Jordan, exhorting all to repent and be baptized, in order to obtain the remission of their sins.

and breaking up the assembly, they drove him out of the city, to the precipice of the hill, upon which it was built, in order to throw him headlong down.

his disciples James and John observing this, said, Lord, shall we command fire to descend from heaven, as Elias did, in order to consume them?

As he was pursuing his discourse, the Scribes and Pharisees passionately urg'd him with many captious questions, in order to ensnare him,

a nobleman, said he, was going to travel to a foreign country, in order to have his kingdom confirm'd to him at his return.

now the passover of the Jews being nigh: the people of that country went in great numbers to Jerusalem before the passover, in order to purify themselves.

now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had publish'd an order, that if any man knew where he was, he should give information in order to have him seized.

this prince employ'd all his arts against our nation, and persecuted our fathers, by obliging them to expose their young children, in order to extirpate the race.

but Saul was appriz'd of their plot. and as they were night and day upon the watch at the gates, in order to kill him,