26 Bible Verses about vocation

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue.

To this end I am making my constant prayer for you, beseeching God to make you worthy of your calling, and to fulfil mightily every desire of goodness and effort of faith;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.

For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.

Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

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

"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

This is the reason why I begged you to see and speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."