38 Bible Verses about motives

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the spirits.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts.

Let all things of you be done in love.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice.

Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

But I pray not to be bold when present with the confidence by which I consider to be valiant toward some who consider us as walking according to flesh.

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,

Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news.

Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.

then are ye not partial among yourselves, and become judges from evil thoughts?

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!

For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off

Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

But LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For [LORD sees] not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but LORD looks on the heart.

Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be

For though walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.