Bible verses about "motives" | ACV

⁷ If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.

¹⁷ And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man. ¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the spirits.

¹² Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.

¹ From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts? ² Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask. ³ Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures. ⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The Spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy? ⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly. ⁷ Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look. ¹⁰ Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. ¹¹ Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge. ¹² There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man? ¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain- ¹⁴ men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away- ¹⁵ in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that. ¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.

⁷ 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.

⁵ But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and non-hypocritical faith.

⁵ Therefore do not judge anything before the 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.

¹ Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

³ in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves. ⁴ 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.

¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts.

¹ Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens. ² When therefore thou do charity, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. ³ But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does, ⁴ so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open. ⁵ And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray having stood in the synagogues and in the corners of the thoroughfares, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. ⁶ But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open. ⁷ And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking. ⁸ Be not therefore like them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him. ⁹ Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name. ¹⁰ May thy kingdom come. May thy will happen on the earth as also in heaven. ¹¹ Give us this day the bread sufficient for us. ¹² And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors. ¹³ And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, because from thee is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Truly. ¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ¹⁶ And when ye fast, become not like the gloomy looking hypocrites, for they make their faces unsightly, so that they may appear fasting to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. ¹⁷ But when thou fast, anoint thy head, and wash thy face, ¹⁸ so that thou may not appear fasting to men, but to thy Father in secret. And thy Father, who sees in secret, will reward thee.