38 Bible Verses about motives
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Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.
For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:
For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.
And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ.
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.
And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh.
I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.
For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:
Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.
Deep waters are counsel in the heart of man; and a man of understanding will draw it out
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.
Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections?
The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.
For who of men knows the things of men except the spirit of man in him? so also the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
Ye shall not enlarge; will ye sproud, proud? shall the impatient thing come forth from your mouth for Jehovah a God of knowledge, and doings were not made equal.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every thing hidden, whether good, and whether evil.
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Thou shalt not look upon his aspect or upon the height of his stature; for I rejected him: for not what man will see, for man will see with the eyes, and Jehovah will see at the heart
My shield upon God, saving the upright of heart
They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak
If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.
They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.
For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness:
And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
For walking in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:
Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.
Topics on Motives
Motives, Examples Of
Philippians 1:15-18And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ.
Motives, Importance Of
Psalm 106:8And he will save them for sake of his name, to make known his powers.
