Purpose

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

To this end, we always pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of His calling, and that He will powerfully fulfill your every good desire and work of faith,

Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

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

The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.

From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about us, and that he may encourage your hearts.

They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.

as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

I wish that all of you could speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be edified.

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

But Jesus told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.”

These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast.

Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.