30 Bible Verses about vocation

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

Each one in the calling in which he was called--in this he should remain.

for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,

so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, {to please [him] in all respects}, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because [if you] do these [things], you will never ever stumble.

Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear {your circumstances}, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

And Manoah said to him, "Now {when your words come true}, what will be the boy's {manner of life} and work?"

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling),

But if I am delayed, [I am writing] in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

For consider your calling, brothers, that not many [were] wise according to human standards, not many [were] powerful, not many [were] well born.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps,

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

"Son of man, I have appointed you [as] a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me.

to the church of God sanctified in Christ Jesus that is in Corinth, called [to be] saints, together with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours.

On account of this I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

(the eyes of your hearts having been enlightened), so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called [to be] an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

And because [he] was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also {I am a prisoner},

Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he [is] faithful.

Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

Then Yahweh came and stood [there] and called out {as before}, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant [is] listening."

Therefore for this reason I have requested to see you and to speak with [you], for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain!"