21 Bible Verses about improvement

I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.

All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,

If you continue to put these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever feeding your own soul on the truths of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed.

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.

"I know what you are doing, I know your love and faithfulness, your service and patient endurance, and I know that you are now working harder than you did at first.

Continue cultivating these things; be devoted to them, so that everybody will see your progress.

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you; continue to turn away from the worldly, futile phrases and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

His master said to him 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

The spiritual blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the common sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

For it is better, if the will of God should plan it so, to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

for most people are looking out for their own interests, not for the interests of Jesus Christ.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,

At that time you were without any connection with Christ; you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the sacred compacts made by God's promise, with no hope, and no God in the world.