What Does the Bible Say About Showing Potential?

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 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.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

James 2:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 2 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.

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 2 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 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. ...

Romans 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 12:4-8 ESV / 2 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; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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 / 2 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Exodus 17:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

25 Bible Verses about Showing Potential

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 17:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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25 Bible Verses about Showing Potential

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Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 17:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes