Bible verses about "motives" | MLV

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

¹⁷ And everything, anything, whatever you do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving-thanks to the God and Father through him.

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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

¹² not like Cain who was from the evil one and slaughtered his brother. And he slaughtered him because of what? Because his works were evil but the works of his brother were righteous.

¹ From where are the wars and quarrels among you come from? Is it not from here, from your own sensual-delights which are warring in your members? ² You lust and do not have; you murder and are jealous and are not able to obtain; you quarrel and make war; you do not have, because you are not asking. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask evilly, in order that you may spend it in your sensual-delights.
⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wills to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of God. ⁵ Or are you thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness? Does the Spirit who dwells in us long to envy? ⁶ But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’
⁷ Therefore, be subject to God and stand against the devil, and he will be fleeing away from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and he will be drawing near to you. Cleanse your hands sinners and purify your hearts you indecisive! ⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy be turned to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will be exalting you.
¹¹ Brethren do not speak against one another. He who is speaking against a brother and is judging his brother, is speaking against the law and is judging the law. Now if you are judging the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² There is the one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?
¹³ Come now, you who are saying, Today and the next-day, we should travel into this city and spend one year there and be a merchant and make a gain. ¹⁴ You do not know what the next-day will bring, for what is your life? For it will be a vapor, which appears for a few but thereafter also disappears. ¹⁵ Instead of that, you should say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, then we might do this or that. ¹⁶ But now you boast in your self-importance. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore knowing to do good and not doing it, to him, it is sin.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For Jehovah sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.

⁵ But the end of the command is love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and a non-pretended faith;

⁵ So-then, do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both be illuminating the hidden things of darkness and will be manifesting the plans of the hearts, and then the praise from God will happen for each.

¹ Take-heed not to do your charity before men, to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father, the one in the heavens.

³ (nothing according to selfish ambition or through empty conceit, but in humility): deeming one another superior to yourselves; ⁴ But just-as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, so we are speaking; not as pleasing men, but it is God who tests our hearts.

¹⁰ For am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.

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

¹ Take-heed not to do your charity before men, to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father, the one in the heavens.
² Therefore, whenever you are doing charity, do not sound a trumpet before you just-like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the lanes, that they may be glorified by men. Assuredly I am saying to you, They are having their reward. ³ But when you are doing charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ that your charity may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you openly.
⁵ And whenever you pray, do not be just-like the hypocrites, because they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may appear devout to men. Assuredly I am say to you, that they are having their reward. ⁶ But you, whenever you pray, enter into your storeroom, and when you have locked your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you openly. ⁷ And while praying, do not be repetitious just-like the Gentile; for they think that they will be heard in their many words. ⁸ Therefore, do not be similar to them, for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask him. ⁹ Therefore pray thus: our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy. ¹⁰ Let your kingdom come. Let your will happen as in heaven, also upon the earth. ¹¹ Give our needful bread to us today. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. ¹³ And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one, because yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen. ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also be forgiving you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father be forgiving your trespasses.

¹⁶ Now whenever you fast, do not become just-like the hypocrites, with a gloomy face; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly I am saying to you, They are having their reward. ¹⁷ But as for you, when you are fasting, anoint your head and wash your face ¹⁸ that you do not appear to be fasting to men, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will be repaying you.