18 Bible Verses about motives

Let all your affairs be in divine love.

So judge nothing before the time, until the Lord may come, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to each one from God.

For what is it? moreover that in every place, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and I rejoice in this, yes, and I will rejoice.

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,

For we are not as many, corrupting the word of God: but as of purity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the presence of God.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ:

the work of each will be made manifest: for the day will reveal it, because it is revealed by fire; and the same fire will try the work of each what soil it is.

but I pray, that being present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I consider myself bold towards certain ones who regard us as walking about according to the flesh.

For our exhortation was not from delusion, nor from impurity, nor in guile:

the former from self-seeking are proclaiming Christ insincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made manifest unto God; and I hope that we have indeed been made manifest in your consciences.

are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?

For who of men knows the things of man, except the spirit of the man which is in him? so indeed no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.

For at that time we were not in word of flattery, as you know, nor in a pretext of covetousness, God is our witness;

For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;