'Call' in the Bible

She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

He *said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him here.” So they *called the blind man, saying to him, “Take courage, stand up! He is calling for you.”

Answering again, Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

Other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He would call out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

As He says also in Hosea,“I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;

for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

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

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.

For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.

‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.