26 Bible Verses about vocation

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Whatever be the condition in life in which a man was, when he was called, in that let him continue.

It is with this view also that we continually pray to our God for you, asking that He will count you worthy of His call, and by His mighty power fully gratify your every desire for what is truly good and make your work of faith complete;

so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.

For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called.

And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

To the Church of God in Corinth, men and women consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-- their Lord as well as ours.

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to proclaim God's Good News,

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.

and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--he lodged with them and worked with them.

And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.

Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead--

"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake.

For these reasons, then, I have invited you here, that I might see you and speak to you; for it is for the sake of Him who is the hope of Israel that this chain hangs upon me."