What Does the Bible Say About Higher Calling?

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

James 1:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Hebrews 8:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Luke 6:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 Bible Verses about Higher Calling

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 1:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Hebrews 8:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 6:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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25 Bible Verses about Higher Calling

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Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 1:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Hebrews 8:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Luke 6:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes