Quotes About Purpose

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Then the servant took ten of his masterís camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahorís hometown in Aram-naharaim.

Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”

“I am Abrahamís servant,” he replied.

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ëPlease give me a drink.í