Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God.
Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"
He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."
Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."
Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"
He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,
Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
For many are called, but few chosen."
He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
"If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.
But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.
They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
They came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, "The place of a skull."
Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah."
the LORD's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
"Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
The name of that place was called Taberah, because the LORD's fire burnt among them.
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won't come up:
the LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."
Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"
Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD,
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.
Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
"To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly: the LORD will hear when I call to him.
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Save, the LORD! Let the King answer us when we call! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
To you, the LORD, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Let me not be disappointed, the LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
As for me, I will call on God. the LORD will save me.
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, the LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.
He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.
Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Then I called on the name of the LORD: "the LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul."
I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the LORD.
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of the LORD.
Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, the LORD! I will keep your statutes.
I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
the LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
the LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God."
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."
It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of Armies;
Thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'the LORD is my God.'"
Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of the LORD, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
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