31 Bible Verses about Character Of Saints

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints,

There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

This service shows what you are, it makes men praise God for the way you have come under the gospel of Christ which you confess, and for the generosity of your contributions to themselves and to all;

Magistrates are no terror to an honest man, though they are to a bad man. If you want to avoid being alarmed at the government-authorities, lead an honest life and you will be commended for it;

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie ??remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth.

"Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Blessed are the merciful! they will find mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God.

And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

a religious man, who reverenced God with all his household, who was liberal in his alms to the People, and who constantly prayed to God.

Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;

Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants,

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him,

amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings ??the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

The gate-keeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."