Quotes About Purpose

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.

And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

After I go through Macedonia, however, I will come to you; for I will be going through Macedonia.

For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesusí sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.