36 Bible Verses about improvement
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For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
Every scripture is divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.
He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.
I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thine endurance, and thy last works to be more than the first.
Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.
for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;
Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.
But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
when they said, Turn again now every one from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers from of old even for ever.
For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.
But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
Thou shalt love then Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments continually.
And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them,
And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah his God.
His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter 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.
For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;
For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.
as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
And in every work that he undertook 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 say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
then they also acted with craft, and they went prepared as on a journey, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-flasks, old and rent and tied up;
And behold, thou art unto them as a lovely song, a pleasant voice, and one that playeth well on an instrument; and they hear thy words, but they do them not.