2 Timothy 2:15
Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.
John 21:15-17
Then, when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, which the Lord will set over his household, to give the allowance of wheat in due time?
Acts 2:22
Men, Israelites, bear these words; Jesus the Nazarite, a man elected by God for you by powers and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, (as also ye yourselves know:)
Acts 20:27
For I concealed not to announce to you all the counsel of God.
Romans 14:18
For he in these serving Christ, pleasing to God, and acceptable to men.
Romans 16:10
Embrace Apelles acceptable in Christ. Embrace them of Aristobulus.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.
2 Corinthians 6:3-4
Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:
2 Corinthians 10:18
For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.
Galatians 1:10
For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
Ephesians 1:13
In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.
1 Timothy 4:6
These having laid down to the brethren, thou shalt be a good servant of Jesus Christ, brought up in the words of faith and good doctrine, which thou bast closely followed.
1 Timothy 4:12-16
Let none despise thy youth; but be thou a type of the faithful, in word, in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Hebrews 4:11
Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.
Hebrews 5:11-14
Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.
James 1:18
Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.
2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
2 Peter 1:15
And I shall also be earnest for you always to have, after my exit, this putting in mind to be done.
2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old.
Mark 4:33
And with many such parables spake he the word to them, as they were able to hear.