Bible Verses About The Call of God

Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:

My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.

Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.

She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?

(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.

But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,

Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.

Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.

And thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not heare me to walke in my Lawes, which I haue set before you,

And to heare ye wordes of my seruants the Prophets, whome I sent vnto you, both rising vp earely, and sending them, and will not obey them,

Then will I make this House like Shiloh, and will make this citie a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, least they should heare the Lawe and the wordes which the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministerie of ye former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.

Therefore it is come to passe, that as he cried, and they would not heare, so they cried, and I would not heare, sayth the Lord of hostes.

But I scattered them among all the nations, whom they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they layd the pleasant land waste.