21 Bible Verses about improvement

For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

Let these things be your care, give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be manifest to all.

in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"

"'Well done, good and faithful slave,' replied his master; 'You have been faithful over many things. Enter into your master's joy.'

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong;

for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.