"Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel," which means "God with us."

But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

"To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.'

He said to them, "How then does David by the Spirit call him 'Lord,' saying,

and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces, and to have people call them 'Rabbi.'

And call no one your 'father' on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

When Jesus heard this he said to them, "Those who are healthy don't need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Calm down!" Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So they called the blind man and said to him, "Have courage! Get up! He is calling you."

So Pilate spoke to them again, "Then what do you want me to do with the one you call king of the Jews?"

because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant. For 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 what I tell you?

They came and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,

The slave replied, 'Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.'

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and do so correctly, for that is what I am.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!"

All who heard him were amazed and were saying, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?"

He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

As he also says in Hosea: "I will call those who were not my people, 'My people,' and I will call her who was unloved, 'My beloved.'"

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

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

Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!

I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.