Quotes About Purpose

You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

Then He said to me, ëGo! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.í”

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

ëBut get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

However, we must run aground on some island.”

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by Godís will I may succeed in coming to you.

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

For in my inner being I delight in Godís law.

Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that Godís plan of election might stand,

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.