But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, you of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm.

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; He’s calling for you.”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Now listen:
You will conceive and give birth to a son,
and you will call His name Jesus.

because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

They came and woke Him up, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to die!” Then He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. So they ceased, and there was a calm.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast,

‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

And they started to call Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

Therefore, since these things are undeniable, you must keep calm and not do anything rash.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.

The first living creature was like a lion; the second living creature was like a calf; the third living creature had a face like a man; and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.