21 Bible Verses about improvement

I am therefore glad when I am disarm'd by the strength of your integrity: and this is what I pray for, even your perfection.

for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;

If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

then he enquired of them the hour when he began to mend: and they answered, yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

let no obscene language defile your mouth, use only such as tends to edification, that it may be beneficial to the hearers.

your charitable offices, your faith, and your patience, and that your last works exceed the first.

meditate upon these things, be wholly employ'd about them, that your proficiency may appear to all.

thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

things that little affect me, nor is life so much my concern, as to finish my course, and the charge I receiv'd from the Lord Jesus, to attest the declaration of the divine favour.

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

his lord said to him, well done, thou art an honest faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust; go in and partake of thy master's diversions.

the favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. amen.

for since it is the will of heaven you should suffer, it is better you should suffer for your virtue, than for any crimes.

the most consult their private advantage, and neglect the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.

where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.

that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God.