You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

He commanded us to preach to the people [both Jew and Gentile], and to solemnly testify that He is the One who has been appointed and ordained by God as Judge of the living and the dead.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you."

For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

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.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

Therefore, the person who resists [these] authorities is opposing what God has ordained. And those who oppose [these authorities] will bring judgment on themselves.

making the word of God of none effect through your own traditions which ye have ordained. And many such things ye do."

And when they had ordained them elders by election in every congregation, after they had prayed and fasted, they commended them to God on whom they believed.

And he said unto me, 'The God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:

Even so, God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, suffered with long patience the vessels of wrath, ordained to damnation,

Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Let not the body be applied unto fornication, but unto the Lord, and the Lord unto the body.

And God hath also ordained in the congregation, first the apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, then them that do miracles; after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues.

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

He that hath ordained us for this thing, is God: which very same hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit.

Every house is prepared of some man. But he that ordained all things is God.

Through faith we understand that the world was ordained, by the word of God: and that things which are seen, were made of things which are not seen.

having been ordained the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, from the resurrection of the dead, of Jesus Christ our Lord:

having been ordained of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest,

but when it pleased God, who ordained me from my birth, and called me by his especial favour, to reveal his son to me,

him God raised up the third day, and ordained that he should be visibly manifested;