Call God

And out of the ground the LORD god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And god said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

• Covenant

And god said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

And god came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

For what nation is there so great, who hath god so nigh unto them, as the LORD our god is in all things that we call upon him for?

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy god hath driven thee,

• Conviction

And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of god? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the god that answereth by fire, let him be god. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his god, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon god?

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O god of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

As for me, I will call upon god; and the LORD shall save me.

• Happiness

And in that day did the Lord god of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the god of Israel.

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the god of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

• Call

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy god, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

• GOD

But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our god: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord god shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord god: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And god said unto him, call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

Then said god, call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your god.

• Government

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your god, and cry unto the LORD,

Therefore the LORD, the god of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy god, if so be that god will think upon us, that we perish not.

• Refining

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my god.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt god are even delivered.

• Emmanuel

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, god with us.

• Children

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our god shall call.

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What god hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but god hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What god hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

• Courage
• Way

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the god of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

• Call
• Corinth
• Church

Unto the church of god which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Moreover I call god for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.