821 verses about Calling

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” Isaiah 49:6

That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things. Amos 9:11-12

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’ ”

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” Genesis 17:5 This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.” Hosea 2:23

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

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Joel 2:32

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Isaiah 49:8 Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

(for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles);

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.