22 Bible Verses about Calling
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For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
(as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations,) in the sight of him in whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive, and calls those things which are not, as though they were.
but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day, lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.
From Thematic Bible
Calling » The lord calling
But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.
But when God, who chose me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Sou in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I at once declined all conference with flesh and blood:
God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Calling » Those that call on the lord
And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Calling » Calling on the lord
Calling » Those that are called by God
And he said to me: Write, Blessed are they that are called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb. And he said to me: These are the true words of God.
And we know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren: and those whom he predestinated he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus? Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction: read more.
and, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us, whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles? As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.
but we preach Christ crucified; to the Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness: but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant. You have been bought with a price; become not the servants of men. Brethren, let every one, in whatever condition he is called, abide in this with God.
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of the lord
Calling » What not to call someone
But you must not be called Rabbi; for one is your leader, and all of you are brethren. And call no man on earth your father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven. And be not called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ.
And he said to them: You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with one of another nation, or to go into his house. But God has showed me that I must not call any man common or unclean.
Calling » Many being called
So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.
Calling » Not many noble or mighty men being called
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble call you;
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of wisdom
Calling » The reward for not calling on the lord
Calling » The calling of God
Calling » Who only calls upon God when they are in trouble
Calling » Who does not call on the lord
Topics on Calling
Abraham, Calling And Life
Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Calling In Christ's Name
Acts 9:21And all that heard him were astonished, and said: Is not this he who destroyed in Jerusalem those that call on this name, and who has come hither for this purpose, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?
Calling upon God
2 Timothy 2:22Shun youthful desires, and follow righteousness, faithfulness, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Calling, Attitudes Of
Ephesians 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;
Calling, Description Of
Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
Calling, Of Christians
2 Timothy 1:9who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus be fore the times of the ages,
Calling, Of Individuals
Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Calling, The Goals Of
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Confidence, God's Calling
Romans 8:33"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.
God Calling Jew And Gentile
John 10:16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; those, also, must I bring, and they will hear my voice: and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
Name Calling
Ephesians 4:29Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers: