32 Bible Verses about Staying Positive

Be always on your guard; stand firm in your faith; keep on acting like men; continue to grow in strength;

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

I am hesitating between two desires, for I long to depart and to be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

Finally, brothers, goodbye! Practice the perfecting of your characters, keep listening to my appeals, continue thinking in harmony and living in peace, and the loving, peace-giving God will be with you.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth;

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

Only you must practice living lives that are worthy of the good news, so that whether I come and see you or stay away, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, and that with one purpose you are continuing to cooperate in the fight for faith in the good news.

and one of you says to him, "Blessings on you, keep warm, eat until you have aplenty," without giving him the things that are needed for the body, what good does it do?

To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you.

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.

Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who bitterly abuse your excellent conduct as Christians may be ashamed of slandering you.

Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do.

"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch,"

And stop neglecting to do good and to be generous, for God is highly pleased with just such sacrifices as these.

Therefore, I will always remind you of these things, although you know them and are firmly grounded in the truth that you already have.

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.

to men who have no written law, like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but specially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law.

But in my opinion she will be happier, if she remains as she is, and I think too that I have God's Spirit.

To the pure everything is pure, but to the impure and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are impure.

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

ever happy in hope, always patient in suffering, ever persistent in prayer,

Into whatever town or village you go, inquire for some deserving person, and stay at his house until you leave the place.

Now faith is the assurance of the things we hope for, the proof of the reality of the things we cannot see.

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."