30 Bible Verses about Motivation

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

Let all you do be done in love.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

On the other hand, he who prophesies addresses men in words that edify, encourage, and console them.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I have had great joy and encouragement over your love, my brother, over the way you have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other ??as indeed you are doing.

May the God who inspires stedfastness and encouragement grant you such harmony with one another, after Christ Jesus,

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

the speaker his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal, the superintendent must be in earnest, the sick visitor must be cheerful.

If you love me you will keep my commands,

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

graciously encourage your hearts and strengthen them for all good in deed and word.

and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

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

For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

[And an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him;

Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

Come, brother, let me have some return from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.

who tried to see what Jesus was like; but he could not, on account of the crowd ??for he was small of stature.