26 Bible Verses about vocation
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I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:
with all humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another in love;
Wherefore we continually pray, that our God would by his power effect all the gracious designs of his goodness, and accomplish the work of faith in you;
that your conduct may be worthy of the Lord, in every respect agreeable to him, being friutful in every kind of virtue, and increasing in divine knowledge:
Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:
only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,
I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.
Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;
you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, that is, in the church of the true God.
for consider, brethren, that not many worldly wise, not many men of power, not many men of birth are among you that are called.
this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,
conjuring you to live suitably to the favour of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.
to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who being sanctified by Christ Jesus, are saints by that vocation, to all that any where invoke the name of Jesus Christ, who is both their Lord and ours.
This it is that makes me Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ upon your account, O Gentiles;
an enlightned understanding, that ye may see what great expectations he has called you to, and what abundant glory it is to the saints to be the lot of his inheritance.
for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.
Wherefore, christian brethren, you who are called to an heavenly inheritance, consider the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess, even Christ Jesus;
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, chosen to declare the gospel dispensation,
Pour out your souls unto God upon all occasions, watching in prayer with all perseverance and supplication for all christians:
exert yourself in the glorious cause of faith, and secure the prize of eternal life, to which you were called, when you made that excellent profession of faith before so many witnesses.
and being of the same trade, he liv'd with them, and follow'd the business of tent-making. every sabbath he disputed in the synagogue,
put up your requests likewise for me, that God would give me an opportunity to declare the mystery of Christ (for which I am even in bonds:)
Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the father who raised him from the dead) and all the brethren,
Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me.
for this reason I desir'd to see and talk with you; it being for the expectation of Israel that I am subject to this chain."
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