26 Bible Verses about vocation

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

Each one should remain in the state in which he was called.

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by his power,

so that you will live a life worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to fleshly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

to live a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we would walk in them.

Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

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

Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and petition. And with this in view, keep alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.

And pray for us as well, that God may open a door to us for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,

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

Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake.

For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."