45 Bible Verses about Purpose

Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.

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Then the Lord said, "I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings. I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey-the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Israelites' cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. read more.
Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

“May the Lord be praised! He has given rest to His people Israel according to all He has said. Not one of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses has failed.

For I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

Lord, Your testimonies are completely reliable;
holiness is the beauty of Your house
for all the days to come.

and many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the Lord’s instruction with them. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

Say these things, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel. When you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

Then the Lord said to me:

Do not say, “I am only a youth,”
for you will go to everyone I send you to
and speak whatever I tell you.

“Now, get ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them or I will cause you to cower before them.

Even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts,

For the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers, since they did not recognize Him or the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled their words by condemning Him.

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry—

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Every word of God is pure;
He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

The precepts of the Lord are right,
making the heart glad;
the command of the Lord is radiant,
making the eyes light up.

I have not spoken in secret,
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

The words of the Lord are pure words,
like silver refined in an earthen furnace,
purified seven times.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!

Without revelation people run wild,
but one who listens to instruction will be happy.

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the message about God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the message of God, which also works effectively in you believers.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this prophetic book, God will take away his share of the tree of life and the holy city, written in this book.

You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you.

You must be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.

Don’t add to His words,
or He will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.

He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.

He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey everything that the Lord has commanded.”

Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings as well as the curses—according to all that is written in the book of the law.

So Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. At the Lord’s temple he read the Lord’s words from the scroll.

When this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

Search and read the scroll of the Lord:
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Now the One who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.

The sower sows the word. These are the ones along the path where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.