Bible verses about "character" | MKJV

¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches; and loving favor rather than silver or gold. ² The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all. ³ A prudent one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished. ⁴ By humility and the fear of Jehovah are riches and honor and life. ⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them. ⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his anger shall fail. ⁹ He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and fighting shall go out; yes, quarrels and shame shall cease. ¹¹ He who loves pureness of heart, grace is on his lips; the king shall be his friend. ¹² The eyes of Jehovah keep knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor. ¹³ The lazy one says, There is a lion outside; I shall be killed in the streets. ¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there. ¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. ¹⁶ He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty. ¹⁷ Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to My knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted in your lips, ¹⁹ so that your trust may be in Jehovah, I have made known to you this day, even to you. ²⁰ Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge, ²¹ that I might make you know the sureness of the words of truth; to return the words of truth to those who send to you? ²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate; ²³ for Jehovah will plead their cause, and strip the soul of those who plunder them. ²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, ²⁵ lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul. ²⁶ Be not one of those who strike hands, of those who are sureties for debts. ²⁷ If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? ²⁸ Do not remove the old landmark which your fathers have set. ²⁹ Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before unknown men.

⁹ He who walks uprightly walks surely; but he who twists his ways shall be known.

² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

⁸ Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.

³ And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience, ⁴ and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope. ⁵ And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.

¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings, ¹⁵ so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

³ according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, ⁴ through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge; ⁶ and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness, ⁷ and with godliness, brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall. ¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his face, nor on his height, because I have refused him. For He does not see as man sees. For man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.

¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience, ⁴ and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope. ⁵ And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.