18 Bible Verses about motives

Let all that you do be done in love.

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

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

For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

For as you well know, I never resorted to flattery, nor to any pretext for enriching myself. God is my witness!

Though I do walk on the low level of the flesh, I do not make war as the flesh does;