37 Bible Verses about Purpose

What, then, is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to Whom it had been promised; having been arranged through angels in the hand of a mediator.

knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,

So that the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

And the law entered, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did super-abound;

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before. I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

These things I wrote to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

but these have been written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life in His name.

But I make not my soul of any value as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the grace of God.

I glorified Thee on the earth; having completed the work which Thou hast given Me to do.

Jesus saith to them, "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work.

For verily I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.

The heaven and the earth will pass away; but My words shall in no wise pass away.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

for powerfully was he refuting the Jews publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.

These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

"Go, and, standing, speak in the temple, to the people, all the words of this life."

But, until this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.

For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing Him, nor the voices of the prophets which are being read every sabbath, fulfilled them, in having condemned Him;

And He, answering, said, "Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,'

But He said to them, "Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those with him?

But Jesus, answering, said to them, "Ye deceive yourselves, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God;

But even if we or an angel out of Heaven should proclaim a Gospel to you other than that which we delivered to you, let him be accursed!

He who rejects Me, and receives not My words, has one that judges him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

And, for this reason, we also give thanks to God without ceasing, that, having received the word of God which ye heard from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which also is working in you who believe.

and, if anyone shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, even from the things written in this book."

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and He went, according to His custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

And, when the letter may be read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

Ye search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and these are they that testify concerning Me;

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

And He Who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

The sower sows the word. And these are those by the wayside, where the word is sown; and, when they hear, straightway Satan comes, and catches away the word which has been sown in them.

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

These things I wrote to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

but these have been written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye may have life in His name.