19 Bible Verses about motives

Let all you do be done in love.

So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

For the appeal we make does not spring from any delusion or from impure motives ??it does not work by cunning;

but the former proclaim Christ for their own ends, with mixed motives, intending to annoy me as I lie in prison.

If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.

These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;