100 Bible Verses About Order

Bible verses about Order

The Bible reveals that God is a God of order, not chaos. Understanding this principle through scripture brings peace and clarity to our lives. From the creation narrative to the structure of the early church, we see divine order woven into the fabric of existence. These verses offer guidance on establishing order in our personal lives, relationships, and communities. By aligning ourselves with God's ordained structure, we can experience greater harmony, purpose, and effectiveness. Let us embrace the wisdom found within these passages, allowing them to shape our perspectives and actions as we seek to reflect God's orderly nature in all we do.

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Psalms 105:20 (KJV)

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

Bible Verses on Order: Find God's Plan & Purpose

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 28:1KJV

And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

1 Kings 4:5KJV

And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

Genesis 45:21KJV

And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.

Numbers 16:17KJV

Jarmuth with her suburbs, En–gannim with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:29KJV

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

2 Chronicles 31:15KJV

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

Psalms 105:20KJV

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

Exodus 18:13KJV

And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

Exodus 36:38KJV

The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

Exodus 35:16KJV

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 9:7KJV

And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;

Exodus 35:10KJV

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

Exodus 25:32KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 20:7KJV

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 25:28KJV

And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:1KJV

And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

1 Samuel 9:23KJV

And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

1 Chronicles 18:15KJV

The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:8KJV

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

1 Kings 7:31KJV

And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

Leviticus 11:14KJV

And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

2 Samuel 11:6KJV

Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Proverbs 19:10KJV

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 1:22KJV

And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

Numbers 27:2KJV

So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

Judges 18:21KJV

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Exodus 1:15KJV

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalms 8:3KJV

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

1 Kings 7:6KJV

Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

Esther 8:9KJV

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Judges 7:16KJV

And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40:1KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 8:1KJV

And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

1 Kings 1:46KJV

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 7:8KJV

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

Deuteronomy 22:11KJV

Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

1 Kings 7:7KJV

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Psalms 18:14KJV

And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

Exodus 28:37KJV

These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

Nehemiah 12:26KJV

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

Nehemiah 13:13KJV

And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

1 Samuel 15:18KJV

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 31:11KJV

And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

Exodus 27:4KJV

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:12KJV

And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28:24KJV

Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Numbers 1:34KJV

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Psalms 24:2KJV

Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying,

Leviticus 17:2KJV

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13:9KJV

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Leviticus 25:8KJV

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

Exodus 39:40KJV

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 18:30KJV

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Genesis 40:3KJV

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

Psalms 114:4KJV

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

Numbers 27:16KJV

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Job 39:5KJV

Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

1 Samuel 10:25KJV

And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

Leviticus 8:31KJV

At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

Numbers 4:27KJV

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Psalms 104:9KJV

There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

Proverbs 30:29KJV

And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

1 Kings 7:49KJV

The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:16KJV

And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.

1 Kings 7:12KJV

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Numbers 10:24KJV

And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

Genesis 43:16KJV

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:44KJV

Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

Nehemiah 13:30KJV

A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

Exodus 38:26KJV

And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Exodus 28:31KJV

And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

Joshua 18:10KJV

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

Deuteronomy 14:15KJV

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

Exodus 26:2KJV

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:16KJV

Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?

2 Samuel 18:22KJV

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.

Joshua 7:14KJV

And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.

Joshua 6:8KJV

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Nehemiah 7:3KJV

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

Psalms 148:3KJV

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.

1 Samuel 18:22KJV

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Isaiah 28:25KJV

Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:

Numbers 26:48KJV

The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

Exodus 35:13KJV

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

Isaiah 3:6KJV

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Samuel 11:15KJV

And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Joshua 15:12KJV

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Jeremiah 10:12KJV

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?

2 Samuel 19:21KJV

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

Numbers 31:13KJV

And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.

Exodus 39:19KJV

And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

Exodus 36:13KJV

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

1 Kings 2:25KJV

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

1 Chronicles 23:2KJV

Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

Psalms 148:11KJV

And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

2 Samuel 18:1KJV

All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.

Nehemiah 11:18KJV

And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

Exodus 36:11KJV

Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

Genesis 47:22KJV

And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

Ezra 8:17KJV

In conclusion, the Bible consistently emphasizes the importance of order, not as a rigid constraint, but as a pathway to flourishing and reflecting God's own character. From the creation narrative to the establishment of societal structures and spiritual practices, order provides a framework for productivity, peace, and effective service. These verses reveal that embracing order involves respecting authority, adhering to established guidelines, and cultivating self-discipline. By reflecting on these principles, we can strive to implement order in our personal lives, relationships, and communities. Ultimately, embracing God's design for order allows us to experience His blessings more fully and contribute to a more harmonious and purposeful world, reflecting His divine wisdom and loving intention for all of creation.