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100 Bible Verses about Aspiration

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 228 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 199 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 157 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 149 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 113 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 113 helpful votes

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Romans 15:20 ESV / 110 helpful votes

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 108 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 107 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

John 5:44 ESV / 103 helpful votes

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

1 John 4:1 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 96 helpful votes

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 94 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 93 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 93 helpful votes

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 84 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 14:6 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 84 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 83 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 83 helpful votes

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

John 14:15 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 3:16 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 82 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

John 16:33 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 15:13 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 1:20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 82 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Psalm 40:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 82 helpful votes

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

Genesis 12:1-3 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Romans 15:13 ESV / 80 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

John 4:24 ESV / 80 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Philippians 3:14 ESV / 75 helpful votes

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-20 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. ...

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 65 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Peter 5:2 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

Lamentations 3:22 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;

1 John 3:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Romans 12:2 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 55 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 118:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.

Psalm 33:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

John 6:27 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Luke 14:28 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Proverbs 13:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 54 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

2 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 43 helpful votes

My persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Philippians 3:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

1 John 3:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Romans 8:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

John 5:39 ESV / 9 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

John 14:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 6:63 ESV / 5 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 5:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

James 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

James 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Hebrews 11:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Titus 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

2 Timothy 2:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

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