22 Bible Verses about Calling
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For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:
Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,
Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall.
as it has been written, That I have constituted thee the father of many nations, before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls things which are not as really existing:
but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
but exhort one another each day, while it is called to-day; in order that no one of you may be hardened with the deceitfulness of sin:
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
From Thematic Bible
Calling » The lord calling
But the God of all grace, the one having called you into his own eternal glory in Christ, will himself make you perfect, having suffered a little while, will establish you, will strengthen you, will settle you.
When the one having separated me, from the womb of my mother, and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
God is faithful, through whom you have been called unto the fellowship of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ.
Calling » Those that call on the lord
And it shall come to pass, that every one who may call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Calling » Calling on the lord
Calling » Those that are called by God
And he says to me, Write, Blessed are they who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And He says to me, These are the true words of God.
But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Whether shall the thing formed say to him that formed it. Why did you make me thus? Has not the potter the right of the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? But if God, wishing to show forth his indignation and make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of indignation having been perfected unto destruction: read more.
and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared unto glory? whom he called, even us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles: as he says in Hosea, I will call them my people, who are not my people; and her beloved, who is not beloved: and it shall come to pass, in the place in which it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God:
but we preach Christ having been crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Gentiles foolishness; but to you who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ. You have been bought with a price; be not the slaves of men. Let each one remain with the Lord, in the same calling in which he was called, brethren.
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of the lord
Calling » What not to call someone
But be ye not called Doctor: for One is your teacher; and you are all brothers. And call no man father upon the earth: for One is your Heavenly Father. Be not called teachers: because One is your teacher, Christ.
and he said to them, You know how it is an unlawful thing for a Jewish man to associate with, or come to one of another nation; and God has shown me not to call any man unconsecrated or unclean.
Calling » Many being called
Calling » Not many noble or mighty men being called
For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:
Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of wisdom
Calling » The reward for not calling on the lord
Calling » The calling of God
Calling » Who only calls upon God when they are in trouble
Calling » Who does not call on the lord
Topics on Calling
Abraham, Calling And Life
Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and went out, not knowing whither he goes.
Calling In Christ's Name
Acts 9:21And all those hearing were astonished, and continued to say, Is not this the one laying waste those calling on this name in Jerusalem? and has come hither for this, that he may lead them bound to the chief priests.
Calling upon God
2 Timothy 2:22But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.
Calling, Attitudes Of
Ephesians 4:1Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,
Calling, Description Of
Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession;
Calling, Of Christians
2 Timothy 1:9the one having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times,
Calling, Of Individuals
Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and went out, not knowing whither he goes.
Calling, The Goals Of
1 Corinthians 1:9God is faithful, through whom you have been called unto the fellowship of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ.
God Calling Jew And Gentile
John 10:16And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: and it behooves me to bring them and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Name Calling
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear.