Bible Verses about “habits”
The Bible contains 46 verses about habits across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.”
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.”
“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”
“And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”
“But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.”
“For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”
“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”
“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”
“¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;”
“And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
“And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›”
“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”
“‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›”
“And he said to [them] all, ‹If any› [man] ‹will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.›”
“For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.”
“Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.”
“Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.”
“¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.”
“Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.”
“For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
“Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”