21 Bible Verses about improvement

For we rejoice when we are weak, and you are strong. And we pray also for this your perfection.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished for every good work.

By recommending these things to the attention of the brethren, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished with the words of the faith, and of good teaching, which you have fully known.

Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was restored to health. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

I know your works, and your love, and your faith, and your service, and your patience, and your works, the last greater than the first.

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them, that your advancement may be manifest in all things.

for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,

Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the great est of these is love.

But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;

His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.

{ (13:13) The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.} { :}

For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.

for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

in what requires diligence, be not slothful; in spirit, be fervent; in service, be devoted to the Lord;

where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world: