2 Timothy 2:15
be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
John 21:15-17
When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, 'Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
Acts 2:22
'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;
Acts 20:27
for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
Romans 14:18
for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.
Romans 16:10
salute Apelles, the approved in Christ; salute those of the household of Aristobulus;
1 Corinthians 2:6
And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
2 Corinthians 6:3-4
in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
2 Corinthians 10:18
for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.
Galatians 1:10
for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
Ephesians 1:13
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,
1 Thessalonians 5:14
and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;
1 Timothy 4:6
These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,
1 Timothy 4:12-16
let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
Hebrews 4:11
May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
Hebrews 5:11-14
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
James 1:18
having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
2 Peter 1:10
wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
2 Peter 1:15
and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.
2 Peter 3:14
wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, 'Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'
Mark 4:33
And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,