Biblical Concept: Excellent
(The Bible verses in findings are hyperlinked.)
Findings
God is excellent in nature and deeds - Psalm
150:2, Isaiah
12:5, 2
Peter 1:3, 1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 1:4,Hebrews 8:6, Exodus 15:7.
Believers excel when applying Bible Doctrine - Proverbs
22:20, 1 Corinthians 12:31, Philippians
1:10, 1 Peter 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, Philippians 4:8, 2 Peter 1:5.
Examples of human excellence - Proverbs
12:4, Proverbs
31:10, Proverbs
31:29, Ruth 3:11.
Miscellany - Ecclesiastes
2:13, Proverbs
17:7, Jeremiah 5:28.
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Excellent
♠GodNAS Psalm 150:2 Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him
according to His excellent greatness.
♠wifeNAS Proverbs 12:4 An excellent wife is the crown of her
husband, But she who shames him is as rottenness in his bones.
♠NAS Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool;
Much less are lying lips to a prince.
♠NAS Proverbs 22:20 Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
♠wifeNAS Proverbs 31:10 An excellent wife, who can find? For her
worth is far above jewels.
♠GodNAS Isaiah 12:5 Praise the LORD in song, for He has done
excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth.
NAS Luke 1:3 it seemed
fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the
beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus;
NAS Acts 23:26
"Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor
Felix, greetings.
NAS Acts 24:3 we
acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with
all thankfulness.
NAS Acts 26:25 But Paul
said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words
of sober truth.
♠NAS 1 Corinthians 12:31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And
I show you a still more excellent way. (Biblical Love / Application of Bible
Doctrine is the more excellent way.)
♠NAS Philippians 1:10 so that you may approve the things that are
excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; (See 1:9-11, Biblical Love / Application of Bible
Doctrine = excellence.)
♠GodNAS Hebrews 1:4 having become as much better than the
angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.
♠GodNAS Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent
ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has
been enacted on better promises.
♠NAS 1 Peter 2:12 Keep your behavior excellent among the
Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may
on account of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the
day of visitation. (Ultimate spiritual idealism.)
Excell
♠NAS Proverbs 31:29 "Many daughters have done nobly, But
you excel them all."
♠SinNAS Jeremiah 5:28 'They are fat, they are sleek, They also
excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the
orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
(The nation of Israel excelled in sin.)
♠ApplicationNAS
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally then, brethren, we request and
exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you received from us instruction as
to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that
you may excel still more.
♠Application 10 for indeed
you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we
urge you, brethren, to excel still more,
Excellence
♠NAS Exodus 15:7 "And in the greatness of Thine excellence Thou dost overthrow those who rise up
against Thee; Thou dost send forth Thy burning anger, and it consumes
them as chaff.
♠NAS Ruth 3:11 "And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you
ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence.
♠NAS Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy
of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.
♠GodNAS 2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to
us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of
Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. (See God’s Essence.)
♠Application 5 Now for this
very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral
excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge;
Excellencies
♠GodNAS 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you
may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light;
Excels
♠NAS Ecclesiastes 2:13 And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light
excels darkness. (Ultimate idealism.)
Philippians
1:9-11 9 And this I pray, that your love
may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve the
things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day
of Christ; 11 having been
filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.