'Calling' in the Bible

But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,

And his brethren and his mother come, and standing without sent to him calling him.

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

But Jesus calling them to him said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.

and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

calling to mind the unfeigned faith which has been in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

But in these there is a calling to mind of sins yearly.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children ye have become, doing good, and not fearing with any kind of consternation.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;

for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate. And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood afar off,