8 Bible Verses about Targets

He has bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a target.

For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

“If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done to You,
O Watcher of mankind?
Why have You set me as a target for You,
So that I am a burden to myself?

“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,
And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for God’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life.

Pursue [this] love [with eagerness, make it your goal], yet earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual gifts [to be used by believers for the benefit of the church], but especially that you may prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people].

But the goal of our instruction is love [which springs] from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.