The best Bible verses for calling (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for calling (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;"Isaiah 41:9
"you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;"Isaiah 41:9
"I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay."Isaiah 41:25
"No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you."John 15:15
"When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him."Psalms 91:15
"And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified."Romans 8:30
"Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall."2 Peter 1:10
"Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,"Hebrews 3:1
"again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”"Hebrews 4:7
"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."Hebrews 8:13
"And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”"Isaiah 6:3
"He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”"John 1:23
"This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God."John 5:18
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for calling (ESV) are Isaiah 41:9, Isaiah 41:25, Jeremiah 29:12. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to calling (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for calling (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.