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G2821κλῆσιςklēsis
callingPart of speech: Greek Noun (Feminine)
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Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
κλῆσις klēsis “calling”
For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:
κλῆσιν klēsin “calling”
Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.
κλήσει klēsei “calling”
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
κλήσεως klēseōs “calling”
I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,
κλήσεως klēseōs “calling”
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;
κλήσεως klēseōs “calling”
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
κλήσεως klēseōs “calling”
For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;
κλήσεως klēseōs “calling”
Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
κλήσει klēsei “with a calling”
For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
κλήσεως klēseōs “of [the] calling”
For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
κλῆσιν klēsin “calling”