Bible Verses About Good Intentions
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for good intentions, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 524 votes, led by 1 John 3:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Good Intentions
1 John 3:1862 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
James 4:1750 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Colossians 3:1-2545 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Proverbs 16:236 votes
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.
Psalms 26:1-1234 votes
Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
1 Timothy 2:429 votes
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Romans 8:2824 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Isaiah 41:1018 votes
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Hebrews 4:1218 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
James 4:318 votes
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Luke 14:28-3017 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Proverbs 14:1215 votes
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
2 Corinthians 9:714 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Luke 1:3713 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Romans 5:3-513 votes
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Romans 8:3113 votes
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 13:1-713 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Peter 1:20-2113 votes
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Psalms 119:10512 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Proverbs 4:2312 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Amos 3:312 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Matthew 7:1212 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Galatians 6:711 votes
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
2 Corinthians 6:1410 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 John 4:810 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
What does the Bible say about good intentions?
Readers most often cite 1 John 3:18 on the subject of good intentions. Across 524 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including James 4:17, Colossians 3:1-25, Proverbs 16:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.