21 Bible Verses about improvement

For we rejoice when we exert not our power, and when ye are strong: as this is what we wish, even your perfection.

and is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;

If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, as one brought up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

He inquired therefore of them the hour in which he grew better: and they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth; but what is good to useful edification, that it may benefit the hearers.

and thy love, and thy service, and thy faith, and thy patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

Meditate on these things, be wholly in them, that thy proficiency may be manifest in all.

to the edifying of the body of Christ:

Endeavour to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But meat does not recommend us to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; nor the worse, if we eat not.

For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three graces; but the greatest of these is love.

But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may 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 with which thou art entrusted, avoiding profane empty babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called:

and his lord said to him, Well done, my good and trusty servant, thou hast been faithful in a few things, I will set thee over many, enter into thy master's joy.

and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

For it is better (if it be the will of God) to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

not slothful in business: fervent in spirit: serving the Lord.

proved me, and saw my works forty years:

and ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus,