Bible verses about "motivation" | VIN

¹ My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: ² for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. ³ Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. ⁴ So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. ⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. ⁶ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. ⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil. ⁸ This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your bones. ⁹ Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: ¹⁰ So your barns will be filled with abundance, and your vats will burst open with new wine. ¹¹ My son, do not reject the LORD's discipline, and do not despise his correction, ¹² because the LORD corrects the person he loves, just as a father corrects the son he delights in. ¹³ Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. ¹⁴ For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. ¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her. ¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. ¹⁷ Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her, and those who hold on to her are blessed ¹⁹ By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place. ²⁰ By his knowledge the depths were rent, and the clouds will drop dew. ²¹ My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes. ²² They will mean life to you and adornment to your neck. ²³ Then you will walk in your way securely and your foot will not stumble. ²⁴ When you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be pleasant. ²⁵ Do not be afraid of sudden disaster, or the devastation that comes to the wicked. ²⁶ for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. ²⁷ Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. ²⁸ Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back. I will pay you tomorrow," when you have cash with you. ²⁹ Do not plot harm against your neighbor who dwells in confidence beside you. ³⁰ Do not sue a man without cause, if he has done thee no harm. ³¹ Do not envy the cruel man, and choose none of his ways. ³² the LORD hates people who do evil. He takes righteous people into his confidence. ³³ The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. ³⁴ Surely He mocks the mockers, but He gives grace to the humble. ³⁵ The wise inherit honor, but the foolish exalt shame.

²⁸ "Do you not know? Have you not heard? the LORD IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and no one can measure (find out) his understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for the powerless. ³⁰ Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. ³¹ "Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint."

⁷ I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; ²⁰ you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

¹⁹ And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

¹² As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!

⁷ Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows. ⁸ The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

⁷ Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

¹ Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. ² So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be praised by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their reward. ³ But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

⁹ But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸ the LORD is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹ A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all. ²⁰ God protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

²⁶ Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

²³ Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,