26 Bible Verses about vocation

So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith,

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope that belongs to the summons you received.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.

to make your lives worthy of God who invites you into his kingdom and his glory.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

This is why I, Paul, whom Jesus the Christ has made a prisoner for the sake of you heathen??2 if at least you have heard how I dealt with the mercy of God that was given me for you,

enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

and as they practiced the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers.

Pray for me too, that God may give me an opening for the message, and let me tell the secret of Christ on account of which I am kept in prison

Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."