Bible Verses About Order in Chaos

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.