As to the matters of which you wrote me, it is an excellent thing for a man to remain unmarried.

To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am.

The elder unto the excellent Lady, and her children, whom I love in truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.

He that has knowledge spares his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and one more excellent than a prophet.

I'll feed them in excellent pastures, and even the very heights of Israel's mountains will serve as verdant pastures for them in which they'll rest and feed yes, even on the fertile mountains of Israel!

Those ministers who serve well gain an excellent reputation for themselves and will have great assurance by their faith in the Messiah Jesus.

Then I examined all sorts of work, including all kinds of excellent achievements that create envy in others. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; yet God feedeth them: how much are ye more excellent than the birds?

But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent.

And to Joseph he said, His land from the blessing of Jehovah, from the most excellent of the heavens, from the dew and from the deep reclining beneath,

And from the head of the mountains of the beginning, and from the most excellent of the perpetual hills,

And from the most excellent of the earth and its fulness, and the acceptance of him dwelling in the bramble: it shall come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the consecrated of his brethren.

In mine ears Jehovah of hosts hath said, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be sufficed, and for excellent clothing.

But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and what is more excellent than a prophet.

And do not they blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?

And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon more excellent than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne! And the king bowed himself on the bed.

I have seen that all [human] perfection has its limits [no matter how grand and perfect and noble];
Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].

“Therefore I tell you, stop being worried or anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted) about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what [essentially] good thing shall I do to obtain eternal life [that is, eternal salvation in the Messiah’s kingdom]?”

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].

Well, what I think is this: that, considering the imminent distress in these days, it would be an excellent plan for you to remain just as you are.

Your thanksgiving may be excellent, but the other is not helped by it.