'Call' in the Bible

Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, "Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

He asked them, "Then how can David by the Spirit call him "Lord' when he says,

And don't call anyone on earth "Father,' because you have only one Father, the one in heaven.

Don't you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now?

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

So Jesus stopped and said, "Call him!"

So Pilate asked them again, "Then what should I do with the man you call "the King of the Jews'?"

because he has looked favorably on his humble servant. From now on, all generations will call me blessed,

I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance."

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

Everyone from the least to the greatest paid close attention to him, saying, "This is what we call the great power of God!"

He is here with authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call on your name."

They began to call Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'

However, I admit to you that in accordance with the Way, which they call a heresy, I worship the God of our ancestors and believe in everything written in the Law and the Prophets.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,

As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?

To: God's church in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified by the Messiah Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah their Lord and ours.

For example, if a bugle doesn't sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?

I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

I keep pursuing the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly call in the Messiah Jesus.

For God did not call us to be impure, but to be holy.

With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

With God as my witness, as well as the Messiah Jesus and the chosen angels, I solemnly call on you to carry out these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

because both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified all have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.

For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to receive the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

"But as for the rest of you in Thyatira you who do not hold to this teaching and who have not learned what some people call the deep things of Satan I won't burden you with anything else.

If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. Here is a call for endurance and faith of the saints:

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to their faithfulness in Jesus: