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100 Bible Verses about Christian Character

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3,872 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.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3,344 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2,836 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.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 2,699 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.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 2,529 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.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2,515 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:31 ESV / 2,017 helpful votes

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Colossians 3:12-15 ESV / 1,920 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 1,837 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 1,828 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 1,766 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 1,735 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.

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 1,699 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1,664 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.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 1,631 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.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 1,498 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes

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

John 15:13 ESV / 1,461 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 1,340 helpful votes

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Romans 5:3 ESV / 1,340 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1,323 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 1,321 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 1,318 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 1,281 helpful votes

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

John 17:17 ESV / 1,267 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1,254 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 5:4 ESV / 1,242 helpful votes

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 1,214 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.”

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 1,188 helpful votes

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

Psalm 25:21 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 1,155 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.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 1,151 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 1,138 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 John 5:3 ESV / 1,129 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 1,124 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 1,118 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,109 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,

Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 1,096 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 1,093 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, ...

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 1,072 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.

Ruth 3:11 ESV / 1,059 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.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 1,055 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 1,029 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,

James 1:27 ESV / 1,022 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 1,015 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. 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.

2 Peter 1:5 ESV / 1,008 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

Titus 2:7-8 ESV / 998 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 John 2:5 ESV / 984 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:

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 964 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 955 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.

Psalm 119:1 ESV / 933 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

James 1:2 ESV / 929 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 919 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 910 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 894 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. ...

Titus 2:14 ESV / 889 helpful votes

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 873 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 1:6 ESV / 868 helpful votes

And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 837 helpful votes

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Romans 8:25 ESV / 835 helpful votes

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Titus 2:2 ESV / 832 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 826 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 818 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 818 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 801 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

James 1:12 ESV / 795 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV / 795 helpful votes

And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 788 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.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 780 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 23:34 ESV / 780 helpful votes

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Romans 12:11 ESV / 772 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 769 helpful votes

And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 767 helpful votes

Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 766 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 759 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. ...

James 1:19 ESV / 751 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 741 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 713 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Revelation 2:2-3 ESV / 709 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 695 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,

2 Corinthians 8:21 ESV / 695 helpful votes

For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man.

Luke 2:49 ESV / 676 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 667 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 667 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.

James 4:8 ESV / 666 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV / 664 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.

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 657 helpful votes

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 650 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 638 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.

Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 626 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.

Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV / 604 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 579 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 576 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Matthew 22:16 ESV / 536 helpful votes

And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.

Psalm 15:1-2 ESV / 523 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;

John 6:27 ESV / 522 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.”

Galatians 5:16-17 ESV / 503 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 494 helpful votes

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

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