19 Bible Verses about motives

Let all that you do be done in love.

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity, nor is it made with deceit;

the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, but thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit which is in him? Even so no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

They seek you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, so that you may seek them.

For, as you know, we never used flattery nor a pretext for greed God is witness

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war as the flesh does.