100 Bible Verses About Living a Life of Purpose

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.

Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers.

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.

Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;