22 Bible Verses about Calling

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Then the angel said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" And he said to me, "These are true words of God."

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. And those whom he predestined, he also called; those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, choosing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, read more.
in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea: "I will call them who were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'" "And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave. You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. Brethren, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master, and you are all brethren. And do not call anyone on earth your 'Father,' for you have one Father, he who is in heaven. Nor are you to be called 'Teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

For many are called, but few are chosen."

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.