'Purpose' in the Bible

and a dead body's fat or mangled carcass's fat may be used for any {purpose}, but you certainly must not eat it.

You shall not take up the name of Yahweh your God for worthless purpose, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished [anyone] who uses his name for worthless purpose.

From Zebulun, those who went out armed, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war: fifty thousand to help David {with singleness of purpose}.

But the princes of the {Ammonites} said to Hanun, "{Do you think} because David sent comforters to you [that] David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring [so as] to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?"

" 'Yet you hid these [things] in your heart; I know that this {was your purpose}.

For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}. They have made a covenant against you:

Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.

[Those who] pursue a [wicked] purpose draw near; they are far from your law.

to give shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and purpose to the young,

All Yahweh has made [is] for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Many plans [are] in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.

Deep waters [are like] purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out.

But he said to them, "It is necessary [for] me to proclaim the good news [of] the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this [purpose].

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)

And every day, devoting themselves [to meeting] with one purpose in the temple [courts] and breaking bread from house [to house], they were eating [their] food with joy and simplicity of heart,

But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose.

Now he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. So they came to him with one purpose, and [after] persuading Blastus, {the king's chamberlain}, they asked for peace, because their country was supported with food from the king's country.

For David, [after] serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with} his fathers, and experienced decay.

Now [when] Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one purpose against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

And the city was filled with the tumult, and with one purpose they rushed into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians [who were] traveling companions of Paul.

for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God.

And [when] a southwest wind began to blow gently, [because they] thought [they] could accomplish their purpose, they weighed anchor [and] sailed close along Crete.

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.

Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same [thing] and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,

according to the purpose of the ages which he carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,

for which [purpose] he called you through our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

who saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus {before time began},

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make {a unanimous decision} and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.