22 Bible Verses about Calling
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For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.
And you must not call anyone on earth your father, for you have only one father, your heavenly Father.
So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.
Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,
as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.
I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin.
I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!"
From Thematic Bible
Calling » The lord calling
And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.
And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,
God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Calling » Those that call on the lord
Calling » Calling on the lord
Calling » Those that are called by God
Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are they who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' These," he said to me, "are the true words of God."
We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good. For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers; and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.
On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?" Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones? Then what if God, though he wanted to display his anger and show his power, has shown great patience toward the objects of his anger, already ripe for destruction, read more.
so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory, including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen? Just as he says in Hosea, "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, And her who was not beloved, my beloved, And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."
but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen, but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.
For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ. You have been bought and paid for; you must not let yourselves become slaves to men. Brothers, everyone must remain in fellowship with God in the station in which he was called.
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of the lord
Calling » What not to call someone
But you must not let people call you 'Rabbi,' for you have only one teacher, and you are all brothers. And you must not call anyone on earth your father, for you have only one father, your heavenly Father. And you must not let men call you master, for you have only one master, the Christ.
and he said to them, "You know that it is against the Law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one; but God has taught me not to call anyone vulgar or unclean.
Calling » Many being called
Calling » Not many noble or mighty men being called
For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of wisdom
Calling » The reward for not calling on the lord
Calling » The calling of God
for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.
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 11:8Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.
Calling In Christ's Name
Acts 9:21Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"
Calling upon God
2 Timothy 2:22Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
Calling, Attitudes Of
Ephesians 4:1So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
Calling, Description Of
Hebrews 3:1Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,
Calling, Of Christians
2 Timothy 1:9He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
Calling, Of Individuals
Hebrews 11:8Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.
Calling, The Goals Of
1 Corinthians 1:9God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Confidence, God's Calling
Romans 8:33Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;
God Calling Jew And Gentile
John 10:16I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.
Name Calling
Ephesians 4:29No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.