Bible Verses about “vocation”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”

“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”

“Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”

“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.”

“You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.”

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

“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.”

“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.”

“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.”

“teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.”

“Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;”

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

“with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;”

“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”

“so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”

“being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

“or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;”

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

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”

“or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”

“For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,”

“Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.”

“one Lord, one faith, one baptism,”

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

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

“one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.”

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

“Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."”

“Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?”

“He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.”

“"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,”

“For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.”

“For many are called, but few chosen."”

“When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.”

“But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.”

“Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."”

“Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.”

“Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.”

“Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.”