100 Bible Verses about Personality

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 1,156 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

John 3:16 ESV / 902 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 898 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.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 895 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 880 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 877 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.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 789 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Romans 12:4-6 ESV / 787 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 770 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 730 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 709 helpful votes

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

1 Corinthians 12:14-18 ESV / 703 helpful votes

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

Romans 7:15-17 ESV / 699 helpful votes

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

1 Corinthians 2:10 ESV / 695 helpful votes

These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

John 14:21 ESV / 672 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 667 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 666 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Acts 17:28 ESV / 655 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 650 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 ESV / 636 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. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 635 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,

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 634 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 631 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 625 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 624 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 607 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.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 598 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 597 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 587 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 567 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 564 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.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 536 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 531 helpful votes

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 514 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 511 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 509 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 14:6 ESV / 492 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.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 479 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 466 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 461 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 455 helpful votes

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

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 452 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

John 15:13 ESV / 449 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:3 ESV / 448 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 447 helpful votes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 425 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 419 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 409 helpful votes

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 401 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Romans 5:4 ESV / 396 helpful votes

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

John 17:17 ESV / 396 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 385 helpful votes

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 379 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 377 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 376 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Psalm 25:21 ESV / 376 helpful votes

May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 368 helpful votes

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

James 1:12 ESV / 360 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 346 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 346 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 344 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 12:10 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 333 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 332 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 330 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 323 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 318 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Ruth 3:11 ESV / 317 helpful votes

And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.

James 1:2 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 306 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Titus 2:7-8 ESV / 304 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 300 helpful votes

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 299 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 298 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 292 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.

1 John 2:5 ESV / 291 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 285 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.”

Romans 12:5 ESV / 284 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 283 helpful votes

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Romans 12:4 ESV / 283 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 283 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 281 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 280 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,

John 14:27 ESV / 277 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.

Psalm 15:1-2 ESV / 275 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

Ecclesiastes 9:14-15 ESV / 273 helpful votes

There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it. But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Psalm 104:24 ESV / 272 helpful votes

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 261 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 Peter 1:6-7 ESV / 261 helpful votes

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

John 10:10 ESV / 256 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 245 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. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 239 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 224 helpful votes

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ...

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