19 Bible Verses about motives

Let all your concerns be transacted in love.

Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.

but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

every man's work shall be made manifest: for that day shall declare it, for it shall be laid open by fire; and the fire shall prove every man's work of what sort it is.

But I pray, that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I purpose to act resolutely against some who think of us, as if we walked after the flesh.

And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made manifest to God, and I hope also have been made manifest in your consciences.

are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings?

For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? so also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.

For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:

For though we walk in the flesh, we war not after the flesh: