Quotes About Purpose

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.

We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

But when God, who set me apart from my motherís womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

In Him we were also chosen as Godís own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.