'Calling' in the Bible

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him,

for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;