Bible verses about "excellence" | BBE

⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

²⁹ Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

⁷ Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men: ⁸ In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹² Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel named Belteshazzar by the king: now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience; ¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

³ Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue; ⁴ And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

⁷ And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

⁷ In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

³ Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.