30 Bible Verses about vocation

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;

My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:

Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Then the Lord came and said as before, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel made answer, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open.

But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.