21 Bible Verses about improvement

and it is a joy to us when we are powerless, but you are strong. This we also pray for--the perfecting of your characters.

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

If you warn the brethren of these dangers you will be a good and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, inwardly feeding on the lessons of the faith and of the sound teaching of which you have been, and are, so close a follower.

So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."

Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your words be good for benefiting others according to the need of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing to the hearers.

I know your doings, your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance; and that of late you have toiled harder than you did at first.

Habitually practise these duties, and be absorbed in them; so that your growing proficiency in them may be evident to all.

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called 'knowledge';

"'You have done well, good and trustworthy servant,' replied his master; 'you have been trustworthy in the management of a little, I will put you in charge of much: share your master's joy.'

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;

Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.