37 Bible Verses about Purpose

"To what purpose then was the law?" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator.

it being plain, that the law was not design'd against the just, but against the lawless and refractory, against irreligion and vice, impiety and prophaneness, parricide and man-slaughter,

so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.

All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view, I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

but first seek the kingdom of God, and that righteousness which leads to it, and all these things shall be superadded. be not

these things have I written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, by your believing on the name of the son of God.

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messias, the son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.

things that little affect me, nor is life so much my concern, as to finish my course, and the charge I receiv'd from the Lord Jesus, to attest the declaration of the divine favour.

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Jesus said to them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

I assure you, heaven and earth may as well cease to be, as that one jot or one tittle of the law should fail of its completion.

heaven and earth shall fail sooner than my predictions shall fail.

therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,

for he strenuously disputed with the Jews in publick, proving from the scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.

these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

go, stand in the temple, and declare to the people, the whole doctrine of life.

nevertheless, when Moses is read, the veil upon their mind continues unto this day:

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,

he answer'd them, have ye not read what David and the rest of the company did when they were hungry,

Jesus answered them, you are mistaken, for want of a true notion of the scriptures, and of the divine power.

but tho' I, or an angel from heaven should preach any thing to you for gospel, different from the gospel I have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

he that rejecteth me, and does not embrace my doctrine, hath one that condemns him: the doctrine that I have delivered, that shall condemn him in the last day.

nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe.

and if any one shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall exclude him from any interest in the tree of life, and in the holy city, and in the things which are written in this book."

being come to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; according to his custom, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and standing up to read,

church which uses to meet in his house. when this epistle has been read among you, take care that it be read likewise in the church of the Laodiceans, and

You search the scriptures, for you think by their means to have eternal life, and they are the very writings which do testify of me.

the Jews there were of a more generous temper than those of Thessalonica: for they very readily embrac'd their doctrine, and daily examin'd, whether it was conformable to the scriptures.

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

now he that furnishes seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall furnish and multiply what you sow, and increase the fruits of your liberality.

the sower is he that soweth the word. they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

these things have I written to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, by your believing on the name of the son of God.

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.

but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messias, the son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.