15 Bible Verses about Excellence

Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,

because His divine power has given us everything that is needful for life and piety, through our full knowledge of Him who through His glory and excellence has called us to Him.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

But I am keeping this jewel in an earthen jar, to prove that its surpassing power is God's, not mine.

But you must earnestly continue to cultivate your higher spiritual gifts. And yet I will show you a way that is better by far:

Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you God's uncovered secret in rhetorical language or human philosophy,

But, as the case with Him now stands, He has entered upon a priestly service as much superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is the Mediator is superior to theirs, superior because it has been enacted upon superior promises.

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.

For those who render good service win a good standing for themselves in their faith in Christ Jesus.