Bible verses about "calling" | WPNT

³⁸ So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁶ Jesus says to him: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me.

⁹ But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a private-property people, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

⁷ Because God did not call us for uncleanness, but by holiness.

¹⁶ It wasn’t you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

²⁶ Just look at your calling, brothers: not many are wise, not many are powerful, not many are of noble birth, by human standards; ²⁷ but God has chosen the foolish things of the world that He might put the wise to shame, and God has chosen the weak things of the world that He might put the strong things to shame;

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit (just as you also were called in one hope of your calling),

¹¹ To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, ¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁴ Because just as in one body we have many parts, but all the parts do not have the same function,

²⁹ Because God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.

¹ So then, as the prisoner in the Lord I urge you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, ² with all humility and courtesy, with patience, bearing with one another in love, ³ taking pains to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace.