Bible Verses about 'Try'
- Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the Lord. - Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting. - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
- Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
- Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
- The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.” - Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
- “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”
- Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
- Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness. - When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave the guilt of my sin. - All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
- But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
- The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Bible verse of the day
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.