19 Bible Verses about motives

let all your doings be in love.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of mens hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.

What then? Notwithstanding, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and therein do I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.

ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

but as we have been regarded by God as worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

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

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from good will.

the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will show it; because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove what every ones work is.

but I entreat you, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think of being bold towards some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.

For our teaching is not from error, nor from impurity, nor in guile;

but they who are of a factious spirit preach Christ with no pure intent, thinking to stir up affliction to my bonds.

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

have ye not been partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

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

They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,