Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love;

Let each one abide in the same calling in which he is called.

Unto which indeed we are praying incessantly for you, in order that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and work of faith, with power;

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God.

Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall.

Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;

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.

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye indeed are called in one hope of your calling;

but if I tarry, in order that you may know how it behooves you to deport yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many influential, not many high-born:

For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps:

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

to the church of God being in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, along with all who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirs and ours:

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God,

praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints,

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, into which you have been called, and witnessed a beautiful testimony before many witnesses.

and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.

at the same time also praying for us, in order that God may open to us the door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, on account of which I indeed am bound;

Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,

Blessed are ye when they may despise you, and shall persecute you, and may say all evil against you, falsifying, for my sake.

Then for this cause I have called you, to see you, and talk to you: for on account of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.