45 Bible Verses about Purpose
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And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.
For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.
Jehovah made all to his purpose, and also the unjust for the day of evil.
And yet for this I raised thee up in order to cause thee to see my strength; and for the sake of declaring my name in all the earth.
Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,
According to the purpose of times immemorial which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:
For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.
Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind.
Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
I knew that thou wilt be able to do all, and counsel shall not be restrained from thee.
In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:
Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:
For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,
For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:
So shall be my word which went forth out of my mouth: it shall not turn back to me empty, but doing what I delighted in, and it shall prosper for what I send it
For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:
Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour
But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee;
And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.
From Thematic Bible
Ear-ring » Worn » Purpose » Idolatry
And they will give to Jacob all the strange gods which are in their hand and the earrings which are in their ears, and Jacob will hide them under the turpentine tree which is in Shechem.
The head-dresses and the step chains, and the girdles, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets.
moses » God reveals » Purpose » deliver » israelites
And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains. And I will come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of this land to a good and great land, to a land flowing milk and honey; to 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 sons of Israel came to me: and also I saw the oppression which the Egyptians oppressed them. read more.
And now come, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, and bring thou forth my people, the sons of Israel out of Egypt
Purpose » Of law
What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,
So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.
Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.
And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:
Purpose » Of the bible » To relate human experience as a warning
And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
Purpose » Of life » Attaining Christlikeness
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
Purpose » Of life » Seeking God's kingdom
But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.
Purpose » Of life » The service of God
And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
Purpose » Of the bible » To give knowledge of eternal life
These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.
Purpose » Of the bible » To give hope to men
For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.
Purpose » Of the bible » To authenticate the divinity of Christ
But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name.
Purpose » Of life » Completing the course joyfully
But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.
Purpose » Of life » Finishing the divine task
I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.
Purpose » Of life » Doing the father's will
Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.
The bible » Purpose » Absolutely trustworthy
Blessed Jehovah who gave rest to his people Israel, according to all which he spake: there fell not one word from all his good word which he spake by the hand of Moses his servant
For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be
Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,
Thy testimonies were very firm: holiness was becoming to thy house, O Jehovah, to length of days.
The bible » Purpose » Profitable for instruction
And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
And they will teach in Judah, and with them the book of the law of Jehovah, and they will turn about in all the cities of Judah, and they will teach among the people.
And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up
The day thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, in Jehovah saying to me, Gather to me the people and I will cause them to hear my word, that they shall be taught to fear me all the days which they live upon the land; and they shall teach their sons.
The bible » Purpose » It contains the message to be delivered
Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.
And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not say, I a boy; for thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee, and all which I shall command thee thou shalt speak
And thou shalt gird thy loins and rise and speak to them all that I shall command thee: thou shalt not be terrified from their face lest I shall break thee before them.
The bible » Purpose » Ignorance of, perilous
For they dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, and the voices of the prophets which being read in every sabbath, having judged, they filled up.
And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,
And he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they with him;
And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Ye are led astray, not having known the writings, nor the power of God.
The bible » Purpose » Purity of
All the word of God is purified: he a shield to those trusting in him.
The mandates of Jehovah are straight, rejoicing the heart: the command of Jehovah pure, enlightening the eyes.
I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.
God, blameless his way: the saying of Jehovah being refined: a shield to all trusting in him.
The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings: silver tried in the crucible of the earth, purified seven times.
The bible » Purpose » The standard of faith and duty
But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema.
He rejecting me, and not receiving my words, has him judging him: the word which I spake, that shall judge him in the last day.
To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them.
For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.
The bible » Purpose » Its words sacred, not to be altered
And if any take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the book of life, and from the holy city, and from the things written in this book.
Ye shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, and ye shall not take away from it., to watch the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
Every word which I command you, ye shall watch to do it: thou shalt not add upon it, and thou shalt not take away from it
The bible » Purpose » Read in the great congregation
And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read.
And he will take the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they will say, All which Jehovah spake we will do, and we will heed.
And after this he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all the writing in the book of the law.
And Baruch son of Neriah will do according to all which Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, to read in the book the words of Jehovah in the house of Jehovah.
And when the epistle shall be read among you, make that also it be read to the church in Laodicea; and that ye also read that from Laodicea.
The bible » Purpose » The study of encouraged
Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.
And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.
For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.
And it shall be with him, and he read in it all the days of his life; so that he shall learn to fear Jehovah his God, to watch all the words of this instruction and these laws to do them:
Seek ye from the book of Jehovah, and read: One of these was not wanting; a female her companion they missed not: for my mouth it commanded, and his spirit it collected them.
The bible » Purpose » Contains seed-corn for the sower
And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)
He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.
He sowing sows the word. And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts.
The bible » Purpose » To relate human experience as a warning
And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
The bible » Purpose » To give knowledge of eternal life
These I wrote to you believing in the name of the Son of God; ye might know that ye have etrnal life, and that ye might believe in the name of the Son of God.
The bible » Purpose » To give hope to men
For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.
The bible » Purpose » To authenticate the divinity of Christ
But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name.
Topics on Purpose
Adversity, Purpose Of
2 Samuel 12:9-12Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Afflictions, Purpose Of
Isaiah 63:9In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.
Anointing, Medical Purpose
Luke 10:34And having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and having mounted him upon his own animal, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Ark Of The Covenant, Purpose
Exodus 25:16And give to the ark the testimony which I shall give to thee.
Divine Purposes
Isaiah 45:18For thus said Jehovah creating the heavens, He the God forming the earth, and he made it; he prepared it, be created it not in vain, he formed it to be dwelt in: I Jehovah and none besides
doctrine, Purpose of
2 Timothy 2:25In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth;
Examples, Purpose Of
2 Peter 2:6And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;
God, Purpose Of
Isaiah 46:10-11Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:
Holiness, Purpose Of
Leviticus 19:2Speak to the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.
Imperfection, And God's Purposes
Genesis 1:31And God will see every thing which he made: and lo, very good And the evening shall be, and the morning shall be the sixth day.
Inspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose Of
Acts 1:16Men, brethren, this writing must be filled up, which the Holy Spirit spake before by mouth of David concerning Judas, being guide to them having taken Jesus.
Law, Purpose Of
Galatians 3:19What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Leisure, Nature And Purpose Of
Genesis 2:2And God will complete in the seventh day his work which he made, and he will rest in the seventh day from all his work which he made.
Life's Purpose
Joshua 24:15And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
Man's Purposes
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.
Marriage, Purpose Of
Matthew 19:4And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,
Scripture, Purpose Of
2 Timothy 3:14-15And remain thou in what things thou bast learned and hast been convinced of, knowing of whom thou hast learned;
Second Coming Of Christ, The Purpose
Hebrews 9:28So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation.
Seven Days For Legal Purposes
Exodus 22:30Thus shalt thou do to thine ox, to thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its mother; in the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.
Spiritual Gifts, Purpose Of
1 Corinthians 14:12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.