19 Bible Verses about Calling, Of Individuals

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am."

And the LORD called again, "Samuel!" and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again."

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me.

"I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,

Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD."

But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men."

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

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

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,