15 Bible Verses about Excellence

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

But I have this treasure in a mere ear then jar, to show that its amazing power belongs to God and not to me.

But you must cultivate the higher endowments.

So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you the secret purpose of God in superior, philosophical language,

But, as it is, the priestly service to which Christ has been appointed is as much better than the old as the agreement established by him and the promises on which it is based are superior to the former ones.

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord,

so that you may have a sense of what is vital, and may be men of transparent character and blameless life, in preparation for the Day of Christ,

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

For those who do good service as assistants gain a good standing for themselves and great confidence in their faith in Christ Jesus.