50 Bible Verses about Motivation

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD weighs the hearts.

What then? only that, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Let all your things be done with love.

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

For the LORD most high is awesome; he is a great King over all the earth.

But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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

Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and take your rest in safety.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Arise; for this matter belongs unto you: we also will be with you: be of good courage, and do it.

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

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

Encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Yea, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

And he sought to see who Jesus was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.