45 Bible Verses about Purpose

And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that is by Shechem.

the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and spacious land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And now behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. read more.
And now come, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before, I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Amorite, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

I have glorified thee on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;

Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

Blessed be Jehovah, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promises which he spoke through Moses his servant!

For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for ever.

And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.

And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about through all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather me the people together, that I may cause them to hear my words, that they may learn them, and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and teach them to their children.

For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to whomsoever I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

Thou, therefore, gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I shall command thee: be not dismayed at them, lest I cause thee to be dismayed before them.

But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, by judging him.

But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,

But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him?

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

But if even we or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you anything besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint; but happy is he that keepeth the law.

He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

And if any one take from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye take from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

Everything that I command you, ye shall take heed to do it; thou shalt not add thereto, nor take from it.

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!

And afterwards he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

And Baruch the son of Nerijah did according to all that the prophet Jeremiah commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah's house.

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of Laodiceans, and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.

The sower sows the word: and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown, and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.