Bible verses about "purpose" | YLT

¹ To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

⁸ Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹⁶ because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

⁴ All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked worketh for a day of evil.

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: —`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this is the whole of man. ¹⁴ For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

²⁸ And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

¹¹ For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you—an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

¹⁸ And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; ¹⁹ having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them—to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'