22 Bible Verses about Calling

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Romans 4:17

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.

Luke 6:46

And why do you call me Lord! Lord! and do not what I say?

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Calling » The lord calling

Galatians 1:15-16

But when God who gave me being and called me by 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,

Calling » Those that call on the lord

More verses: Romans 10:12-13

Calling » Calling on the lord

Calling » Those that are called by God

Romans 8:28-30

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.

Romans 9:20-26

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus? or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor? But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, read more.
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory, whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles, as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved, and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness, but to the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and wisdom of God;

1 Corinthians 7:22-24

For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant. You are bought with a price; be not servants of men. Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God.

Calling » The reward for not answering the calls of the lord

Calling » What not to call someone

Matthew 23:8-10

But do not you be called Rabbi; For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father. Neither be called leaders, for one is your leader, the Christ.

Acts 10:28

and he said to them, You know that it is not lawful for a Jew to associate with a man of another nation, or come into his house; and God has taught me not to call any man common or impure;

Calling » Many being called

Calling » Not many noble or mighty men being called

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

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Acts 9:21

And all that heard him were astonished and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name at Jerusalem, and has come here for this purpose, that he might lead them bound to the chief priests?

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