45 Bible Verses about Purpose

So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their power and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands and the powders and the earrings,

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason 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 broad land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the places of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Therefore, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has now come before me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. read more.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.

For what then serves the law? It was added because of rebellions until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly sinners, for the evil and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

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

Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling 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 seems evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

These things I have written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

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

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear unto myself, only that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

I have clarified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou didst give me to do.

Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

Blessed be the LORD that has given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he had said; not one word has failed of all his good word, which he spoke by the hand of Moses, his slave.

For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Therefore by faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Thy testimonies are very sure; holiness becomes thy house, O LORD, for ever.

And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD 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 the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the LORD with them and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.

The day that thou didst stand before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather the people together unto me, and I will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their sons.

for he mightily convinced the Jews in public, showing 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 placed thee as a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.

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

But the LORD said unto me, Do not say, I am a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and thou shalt arise and speak unto them all that I shall command thee; do not fear them lest I confound thee before them.

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

For those that dwell at Jerusalem and their princes, because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female?

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

Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

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

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. Not without substance did I say unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me; I am the LORD who speaks righteousness, who declares things that are right.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema.

Without prophetic vision, the people shall perish, but he that keeps the law is blessed.

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

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.

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

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish anything from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Keep thyself, and do all that I command you; thou shalt not add to it nor diminish from it.

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

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up to read.

And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people, and they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and we will hear.

After this he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

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

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the congregation of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are those who testify of me.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

and it shall be near unto him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them,

Seek ye out that which is written in the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.

Now he that supplies seed to the sower shall also supply bread for food and shall multiply your seed sown and shall increase the growing of the fruits of your righteousness,

He that goes forth and weeps, bearing the precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

The sower is he who sows the word. And these are those by the way side, in whom the word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

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

These things I have written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

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