'Purpose' in the Bible

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything.

Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

For we [believers will be called to account and] must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be repaid for what has been done in the body, whether good or bad [that is, each will be held responsible for his actions, purposes, goals, motives—the use or misuse of his time, opportunities and abilities].

Working together with Him, we strongly urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain [by turning away from sound doctrine and His merciful kindness].

It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.

For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ,

In Damascus the governor (ethnarch) under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,