36 Bible Verses about improvement
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For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, which you have attained.
Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to mend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
I know your works, and love, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first.
Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may appear to all.
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
They said, Turn you again now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever:
For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain utterances, and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge:
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and did that which was good and right and true before the LORD his God.
His lord said unto him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter into the joy of your lord.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
They did work craftily, and went and made as if they were ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their donkeys, and wine skins, old, and torn, and mended;
And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.
