36 Bible Verses about improvement

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.

If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now :

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers, from of old and even for evermore;

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee , turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them.

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before Jehovah his God.

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.

And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.