36 Bible Verses about improvement
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We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted.
God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)
If you tell the brothers about these things, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed until now.
He asked them about the hour he was healed. They said: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.
I know your works. I know your love, your faithfulness, your service, and your patience. I know that you are doing more now than you did at first.
Be diligent and think about these things. Give yourself wholly to them. That way your progress may be apparent to all.
This is for the perfecting (equipping) (preparing) of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Be diligent to be presented approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better.
The prophets said: Turn from your evil ways and the evil you have done, and live in the land that Jehovah permanently gave to you and your ancestors.
Do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!
I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.
O Timothy, guard that which is committed to you. Turn away from the empty speeches that violate what is holy and from opposition and from false knowledge.
A wise man will hear and will increase learning. A man of understanding will procure wise counsel.
This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and true to Jehovah his God.
His lord said: 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, so I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the intimate sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
It is better to suffer for doing what is right, if suffering is God's will, than to suffer for doing evil (wrong) (sin).
They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.
Do not lag behind in diligence. Be fervent in spirit serving God.
Hezekiah incorporated Moses' teachings and commands into worship and dedicated his life to serving God. Whatever he did for the worship in God's Temple, he did wholeheartedly, and he succeeded.
You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
Your forefathers examined (inspected) (scrutinized) me by proving (testing) me. And they saw my works for forty years.
King Hezekiah and his officials saw how much had been given. They praised Jehovah and praised his people Israel.
You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.
They resorted to a ruse (scheme) (trick). They acted as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, worn out, torn, and mended.
To them you are nothing more than a singer with a beautiful voice who sings love songs or a musician who plays an instrument. They listen to your words, but they do not do them.
