Bible Verses about “striving for excellence”

“Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, 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 about these things.”

“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”

“God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."”

“Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.”

“knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”

“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.”

“Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;”

“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,”

“Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.”

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

“and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:”

“Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!”

“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

“and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

“Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],”

“Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.”

“having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

“Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;”

“Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.”

“For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.”

“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.”

“through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

“For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.”

“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.”

“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

“Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.”

“For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.”

“For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.”

“But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.”

“The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.”

“For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.”

“So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.”

“For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.”

“The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;”

“that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

“Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

“Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ”

“I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.”

“Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.”

“In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can't be hidden.”