19 Bible Verses about motives

Let all your affairs be carried on in love.

Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God.

What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Some, indeed, preach Christ even because of envy and strife; and some also of good-will;

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

but the other proclaim Christ of contention, not sincerely, thinking to add tribulation to my bonds.

Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.

do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them.

For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;

For, though walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh,