Bible Verses about “developing character”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”

“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”

“For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.”

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”

“¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

“To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”

“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].”

“Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”

“From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”

“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”

“And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:”

“¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

“¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”

“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

“Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”

“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”

“¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”

“When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?”

“But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].”

“¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”

“Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:”

“Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:”

“And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

“Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.”

“And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.”

“For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.”

“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”

“And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].”

“Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.”

“¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”