36 Bible Verses about Purpose

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,

These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

I have done honor to you here on earth, by completing the work which you gave me to do.

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

Earth and sky will pass away, but my words will not.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, and showed from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

Why, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their minds,

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

But he said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his companions were hungry?

Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you do not understand the Scriptures nor the power of God.

But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him!

Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

When this letter has been read to you, have it read to the church at Laodicea also, and see that you read the letter that is coming from there.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

What the sower sows is the message. The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.

I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.