39 Bible Verses about Purposes (KJV)

Here are 39 Bible verses about purposes, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Isaiah 55:11 KJV

¹¹So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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Isaiah 46:10 KJV

¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

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Psalm 138:8 KJV

⁸The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Luke 19:10 KJV

¹⁰For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Matthew 28:18-20 KJV

¹⁸And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. ¹⁹Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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Micah 6:8 KJV

⁸He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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Proverbs 15:22 KJV

²²Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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Hebrews 1:14 KJV

¹⁴Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Psalm 150:6 KJV

⁶Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

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Psalm 148:1-14 KJV

¹Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. ²Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. ³Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. ⁴Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. ⁵Let them praise the name of the Lord: …

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Psalm 95:6 KJV

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

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John 18:36 KJV

³⁶Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

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Genesis 1:26 KJV

²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Matthew 6:26 KJV

²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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Deuteronomy 25:4 KJV

⁴Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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Genesis 1:1 KJV

¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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Romans 13:3 KJV

³For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

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Romans 13:1-7 KJV

¹Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. ²Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. ³For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou …

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Matthew 18:10 KJV

¹⁰Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

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Matthew 10:29 KJV

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

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Matthew 7:13-14 KJV

¹³Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: ¹⁴Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

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Proverbs 27:23 KJV

²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

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Proverbs 12:10 KJV

¹⁰A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Job 38:41 KJV

⁴¹Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

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Job 12:7-10 KJV

⁷But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: ⁸Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. ⁹Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? ¹⁰In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

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1 Samuel 17:34 KJV

³⁴And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

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Deuteronomy 22:6-7 KJV

⁶If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: ⁷But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

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Deuteronomy 22:4 KJV

⁴Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

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Leviticus 25:7 KJV

⁷And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

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Exodus 23:11 KJV

¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

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Exodus 23:5 KJV

⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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Exodus 21:22 KJV

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Exodus 21:22-25 KJV

²²If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ²³And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, ²⁴Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, …

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Exodus 20:13 KJV

¹³Thou shalt not kill.

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Exodus 20:10 KJV

¹⁰But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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Genesis 2:1-25 KJV

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ²And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. ⁴These are the generations …

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