'Purpose' in the Bible

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.

The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts may be used for any purpose, but you must not eat it.

Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me.

From Zebulun: 50,000 who could serve in the army, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, with one purpose to help David.

Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform made for this purpose. Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah stood beside him on his right; to his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Should he argue with useless talkor with words that serve no good purpose?

May He give you what your heart desiresand fulfill your whole purpose.

I call to God Most High,to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me.Lord, Your love is eternal;do not abandon the work of Your hands.

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

“I, Yahweh, have called Youfor a righteous purpose,and I will hold You by Your hand.I will keep You and appoint Youto be a covenant for the peopleand a light to the nations,

I call a bird of prey from the east,a man for My purpose from a far country.Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.I have planned it; I will also do it.

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.