Bible verses about "motives" | Worrell

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

¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

¹² not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

¹ Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?" ⁶ But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." ⁷ Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness! ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you. ¹¹ Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² One is Law-giver and Judge—He Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor? ¹³ Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain," ¹⁴ (ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away); ¹⁵ instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that." ¹⁶ But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil. ¹⁷ To him, therefore, who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

⁵ Wherefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then will each one have his praise from God.

⁵ But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned;

¹ "Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise at least ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven.

³ doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself; ⁴ but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

¹⁰ For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

¹ "Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, otherwise at least ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven. ² When, therefore, you are doing alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward. ³ But, when you are doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ that your alms may be in secret; and your Father, Who seeth in secret, will recompense you. ⁵ "And, when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: verily I say to you, they have their reward. ⁶ But when you pray, enter into your closet; and, having closed your door, pray to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who seeth in secret will recompense you. ⁷ "And, when praying, use not vain repetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think that for their much speaking they shall be heard. ⁸ Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need before ye ask Him. ⁹ Thus, therefore, pray ye: 'Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. ¹⁰ Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on earth. ¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ¹³ And bring us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.' 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, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward. ¹⁷ But, when fasting, anoint your head, and wash your face, ¹⁸ that you appear not to men to be fasting, but to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who seeth in secret will recompense you.