2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.
John 21:15-17
When therefore they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a friend to you. He said to him, Feed my lambs.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is a faithful, a wise steward, whom the lord shall place over his family, to give them their proper food in due time?
Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know,
Acts 20:27
for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
Romans 14:18
for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.
Romans 16:10
Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those of the [family] of Aristobulus.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But we speak wisdom among the perfect, but not the wisdom of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, who are destroyed;
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.
2 Corinthians 4:2
but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
2 Corinthians 10:18
for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
Ephesians 1:13
in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
1 Thessalonians 2:4
but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.
1 Timothy 4:6
Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;
1 Timothy 4:12-16
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us use diligence, therefore to enter into that rest [the heavenly rest], that no one may fall, after the same example of disobedience.
Hebrews 5:11-14
Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.
James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.
2 Peter 1:10
Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.
2 Peter 1:15
But I will also be diligent and especially that you may be able to make mention of these things after my departure.
2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, Every scribe therefore that is instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder who casts out of his treasury things new and old.
Mark 4:33
And with many such parables spoke he the word to them as they could hear;