45 Bible Verses about Purpose

So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings. He buried them under the oak (big) tree near Shechem.

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Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them. I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. My people have begged for my help. I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them. read more.
Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.

What then is the law? It was added (to cause awareness of sin) because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

The Law was our schoolmaster (Greek: paedagogue: a combination of schoolmaster, instructor, servant and guardian in charge of us) to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead. I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'

I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.

I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.

I glorified you on the earth. I accomplished the work you gave me to do.

Jesus said: My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!

THANKS TO JEHOVAH! He has given his people Israel rest, as he has promised. None of the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed to come true.

I solemnly tell you, heaven and earth would pass away before one small letter (detail) will pass away from the Law. All things must be accomplished.

Heaven and earth will pass away: but my words will not pass away.

For this reason it is by faith that it may be according to grace (divine influence) (loving-kindness). The promise may be sure to all descendants! This is not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is by the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Your testimonies are very sure: holiness adorns your house, O Jehovah, forever.

Then many people will come and say: Let us go to the mountain of Jehovah, to the House of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways so that we may live by them. The law will go out from Zion. The word of Jehovah will go out from Jerusalem.

They taught in Judah. They had the Book of Torah (the Law) (Jehovah's Teachings) with them when they taught the people in all the cities of Judah.

Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up.

Do you remember the day you stood in the presence of Jehovah your God at Mount Sinai (Horeb)? He said to me: 'assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live. Then they will teach their children to do the same.'

He powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

Speak and exhort and reprove these things with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the people of Israel. Listen to what I say, and warn them for me.

Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all the sayings about this life.

Jehovah said to me: 'Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go wherever I send you. You must say whatever I command you to say.

Strengthen yourself, Jeremiah! Stand up, and say to them whatever I tell you to say. Do not be terrified in their presence, or I will make you even more terrified in their presence.

But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?

He replied to them: Have you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him.

The statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine.

I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness. I have not said to Jacob's descendants: Seek me in vain. I, Jehovah, speak the truth; I declare what is right.

God's way is perfect! The word of Jehovah has proven to be true. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

The words of Jehovah are pure, like silver refined in a furnace on the earth and purified seven times.

If we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any message other than that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (condemned) (expelled).

Where there is no vision the people perish. The one who obeys the law is happy.

He that rejects me and does not accept my message has one that judges him. The word (divine expression) (God's Word) that I spoke shall judge him now and in the last day. (Deuteronomy 18:19)

They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.

For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

If any man 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 that are written in this book.

He is your God. I am telling you everything he has commanded. So do not add anything or take anything away.

Be careful to do what I command you. Do not add to it nor take away from it.

Do not add to his words of he will reprove you. You will be found to be a liar.

Then he returned to Nazareth the place where he was raised. He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day. This was his custom. There he stood up to read.

He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah's commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.

Afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursing, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

Baruch, son of Neriah, did as the prophet Jeremiah commanded him. In Jehovah's Temple he read from the scroll everything that Jehovah had said.

When this letter has been read among you, make sure it is read also in the congregation of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes.

Search Jehovah's book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together.

The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

The person who goes out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will come home singing, carrying his bundles of grain.

The sower sows the word. These are they by the wayside where the word is sown. When they have heard; Satan comes and takes away the word that has been sown in them.

These things happened for examples, and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.

The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.

These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.