Bible Verses about 'Not doing things for self'
- And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
- For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
- To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
- The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
- “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
- “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
- If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
- As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
- Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
- Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
- It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
- For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
- For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
- For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
- A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls. - But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
- Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
- God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
- Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
- Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
- Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
- If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
then you shall take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
- He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
- For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
- All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
- For he satisfies the longing soul,
and the hungry soul he fills with good things. - And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
- These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
- Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
- Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
- Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
- Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
- For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.
- Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
- Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
- And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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