32 Bible Verses about Motivation

What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Let all your concerns be transacted in love.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

But he that prophesieth, addresseth men for edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

without ceasing calling to mind your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother.

and let us attentively observe one another, to excite an ardour of love and of good works:

and that so I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and of me.

Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.

Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye do.

Now the God of patience and consolation give you to be like-minded among each other, according to Christ Jesus:

For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned:

or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; he that distributes, let him do it with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that is employed in acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that by patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Then after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogues sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if ye are disposed to give a word of exhortation to the people, speak.

strengthening the souls of the brethren, exhorting them to abide firm in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must pass into the kingdom of heaven.

IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

Wherefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will manifest the counsels of men's hearts; and then shall praise be given to each from God.

Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all things to the glory of God.

TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, in order to catch their eye: for otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

But about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with an exceeding loud cry, saying, Eli! Eli! lama, sabacthani? that is, My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?

CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Just so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

And an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

Yea, brother, I wish to have joy in thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

And he was desirous to have a sight of Jesus, what sort of person he was; and he could not, because of the crowd, for he was short of stature.