36 Bible Verses about improvement

We are glad when we are weak, and ye strong. This also we wish for, even that ye were perfect.

For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness,

If thou shalt put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ which hast been nourished up in the words of the faith, and good doctrine, which doctrine thou hast continually followed.

Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, "Yesterday, the seventh hour, the fever left him."

Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers.

I know thy works and thy love, service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy deeds, which are more at the last than at the first.

These things exercise, and give thyself unto them, that it may be seen how thou profitest in all things.

that the saints might have all things necessary to work and minister withal, to the edifying of the body of Christ,

Whoso loveth wisdom, will be content to be reformed; but he that hateth to be reproved, is a fool.

Study to show thyself laudable unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, dividing the word of truth justly.

Meat maketh us not acceptable to God: Neither if we eat are we the better: Neither if we eat not are we the worse.

He said, 'Turn again every man from his evil way, and from your wicked imaginations, and so shall ye dwell forever in the land that the LORD promised you and your forefathers:

Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.

Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.

But none of those things move me. Neither is my life dear unto myself; that I might fulfill my course with joy, and the ministration which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises unto him with understanding.

O Timothy, save that which is given thee to keep, and avoid unghostly vanities of voices, and oppositions of science falsely so called,

For this God is our God for ever and ever; he shall be our guide unto death.

By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:

Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments always.

And Hezekiah bade dress up the store houses about the house of the LORD. And so they did,

And of this manner did Hezekiah, throughout all Judah; and did that was good, right and truth, before the LORD his God.

Then his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: enter in into thy master's joy.'

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with you all. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, by Titus and Luke}

Put away thine uncleanness out of the land, thou that art in the strong cities.

It is better - if the will of God be so - that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

For all others seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christ's.

Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.

And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.

Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

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

And when Hezekiah and the lords came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.

remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.

they played wilily, and went and sent ambassadors: and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles old and rent and knit together again,

And as a ballad that hath a sweet tune, and is pleasant to sing, so shalt thou be unto them: thy words shall they hear, but they will not do thereafter.

If thou seest a man that is wise in his own conceit, there is more hope in a fool than in him.