Bible Verses About The Call of God

Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:

O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.

You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.

The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:

To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:

I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts.

And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a wilderness.