49 Bible Verses about Doing Your Best
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And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.
So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing.
For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.
Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.
And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
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