19 Bible Verses about motives

and let all your affairs be carried on in love.

Wherefore judge nothing before the time; even until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every one have praise from God.

What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some also through good-will:

every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.

but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of impurity, nor in guile:

the others out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but if not, we are manifest unto God, and I hope we are also manifested to your consciences:

do ye not make a partial difference within yourselves, and become judges that reason wickedly?

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them:

For neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, God is witness:

For though we are in the flesh, we do not carry on our war according to the flesh: