Bible verses about "organization" | BBE

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark, ⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ⁶ And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so. ⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so. ¹⁰ And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. ¹² And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. ¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars. ¹⁷ And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth; ¹⁸ To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. ²⁰ And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven. ²¹ And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good. ²² And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth. ²⁷ And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them. ²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth. ²⁹ And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

¹³ Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening. ¹⁴ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening? ¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God: ¹⁶ And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God. ¹⁷ And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. ¹⁸ Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself. ¹⁹ Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: ²⁰ Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do. ²¹ But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; ²² And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you. ²³ If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. ²⁴ So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said. ²⁵ And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens. ²⁶ And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves. ²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?

¹¹ Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: ⁷ Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. ⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

² And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.

⁴⁴ Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come. ⁴⁵ Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time? ⁴⁶ A blessing on that servant, who will be doing so when his lord comes. ⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will put him over all he has. ⁴⁸ But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming; ⁴⁹ And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine; ⁵⁰ The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge, ⁵¹ And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

⁴⁰ Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.