'Purpose' in the Bible

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.