What Does the Bible Say About Performance?

Galatians 6:3-4 ESV / 69 helpful votes

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 46 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 8:10-11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Luke 1:45 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

Psalm 57:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Romans 12:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

1 Corinthians 10:29-33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 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.

1 Corinthians 14:26-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. ...

Acts 18:20-22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined. But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus. When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 149:1-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. ...

3 John 1:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Psalm 67:1-68:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! ...

2 Corinthians 8:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 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.

Jeremiah 31:4-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit. For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.’” For thus says the Lord: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’ Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. ...

Psalm 95:1-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 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,

James 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Ephesians 5:9-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, ...

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 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.

2 Samuel 6:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart, with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark. And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. ...

Deuteronomy 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

Deuteronomy 4:1-49 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ...

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Timothy 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Colossians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,

John 5:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

1 Kings 3:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord. Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places. And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” ...

49 Bible Verses about Performance

Galatians 6:3-4 ESV / 69 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 8:10-11 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:45 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 57:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:29-33 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:26-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 18:20-22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 149:1-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 67:1-68:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 8:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 31:4-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 95:1-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:9-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 6:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 4:1-49 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 3:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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