'Call' in the Bible

Pour out Your wrath on the nationsthat don’t recognize Youand on the familiesthat don’t call on Your name,for they have consumed Jacob;they have consumed him and finished him offand made his homeland desolate.

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me at the time of their disaster.

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib,

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

But I will bring you healthand will heal you of your wounds—this is the Lord’s declaration—for they call you Outcast,Zion whom no one cares about.

For there will be a day when watchmen will call outin the hill country of Ephraim,“Get up, let’s go up to Zion,to Yahweh our God!”

Yet You, Lord God, have said to me: Buy the field with silver and call in witnesses—even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”

Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

They will take their tents and their flocksalong with their tent curtains and all their equipment.They will take their camels for themselves.They will call out to them:Terror is on every side!

Yet I call this to mind,and therefore I have hope:

You come near when I call on You;You say: “Do not be afraid.”

I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains”—the declaration of the Lord God—“and every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Call your brothers: My Peopleand your sisters: Compassion.

In that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—you will call Me, “My husband,”and no longer call Me, “My Baal.”

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

My people are bent on turning from Me.Though they call to Him on high,He will not exalt them at all.

I call to You, Lord,for fire has consumedthe pastures of the wilderness,and flames have devouredall the trees of the countryside.

A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”That person will reply, “None.”Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing.

How long, Lord, must I call for helpand You do not listenor cry out to You about violenceand You do not save?

For I will then restorepure speech to the peoplesso that all of them may callon the name of Yahwehand serve Him with a single purpose.

I will put this third through the fire;I will refine them as silver is refinedand test them as gold is tested.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say: They are My people,and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; He’s calling for you.”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Now listen:You will conceive and give birth to a son,and you will call His name Jesus.

because He has looked with favoron the humble condition of His slave.Surely, from now on all generationswill call me blessed,

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

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

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

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

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

And they started to call Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the main speaker.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

As He also says in Hosea:I will call Not My People, My People,and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.