19 Bible Verses about Calling, Of Individuals

Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one. I blessed him and made him many.

By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going.

Jehovah saw that Moses came closer. He called to him from the middle of the bush: Moses! Moses! Moses answered: Yes, here I am.

Jehovah called Samuel again. Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said: Here I am. You called me. Eli responded: I did not call you, son. Go back to bed.

I heard the voice of Jehovah. He said: Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said: Here I am. Send me!

For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one, I have called you by name. I have given you a title of honor, although you do not know me.

I, Jehovah, have called you and have given you power to see that justice is done on earth. I will make a covenant with all peoples and bring light (truth) (light of instruction) (Psalm 27:1) to the nations through you.

Listen to this, you islands! Pay attention you people far away. Jehovah chose me long before I was born. He recorded my name while I was in my mother's womb.

Jehovah spoke his word to me, Jeremiah, He said: Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.

When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.

Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me: 'Go prophesy to my people Israel.'

He said to them: Follow me and I will teach you to catch people.

Jesus said: Follow me and I will teach you to catch people.

He said Come and see. So they came to where he was staying. They stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed (set apart) for the good news of God,

This letter is from Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother.

It pleased God to separate me even from my mother's womb and call me through his grace.