31 Bible Verses about potential

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

Take note -- I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

The Lord cried out, "Who in the world will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve over you? Who will stop long enough to inquire about how you are doing?

The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth's foundations were made?

Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive ruling authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.

Elisha said to him, "Go and tell him, 'You will surely recover,' but the Lord has revealed to me that he will surely die."

For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: "Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!"

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

The river's channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,

Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.

My God, I trust in you. Please do not let me be humiliated; do not let my enemies triumphantly rejoice over me!

You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

A rich person is wise in his own eyes, but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly.

You hear prayers; all people approach you.