35 Bible Verses about improvement

For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.

O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.

This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

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

Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel.

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;

And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.