Seeing the best in others is a good habit that improves our relationships with the people around us. We all have good and bad in us, but we should see the good in others. Just as God sees the good in us, we should see the best in others.
But how can we see the good in others? Only if we love people can we see the good in them. Another thing we need to remember is that every person is made in the image of God. When we see every person this way, we can be patient with them and love them.
When we see the best in others, we realize our faults or flaws. None of us is perfect and we make mistakes many times. If we discuss the faults of others, we will never have good relationships with each other. In this case, we will encourage each other with the Word of God, which can remove the faults in us.
Jesus set a beautiful example before us. He chose the neglected and oppressed classes of society as his disciples. Although they had many faults, God saw their hearts. We should look for the good in others, like the Lord Jesus.
We need to develop the habit of always looking for the good in other people. This way we honor God and can express God’s love for others.
Let us now look at the following Bible verses that talk about looking for the best in others.
Ephesians 4:2 : —
“With all lowliness meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love”
Ephesians 4:25 : —
“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another”
Ephesians 4:29 : —
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers”
Ephesians 4:32 : —
“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you”
Ephesians 5:1-2 : —
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear childrenAnd walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, hath given himself for us an offering a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour”
Ephesians 6:7 : —
“With good will doing service, as to the Lord, not to men”
Colossians 3:12-14 : —
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsufferingForbearing one another, forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do yeAnd above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness”
Colossians 4:6 : —
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man”
Romans 12:10 : —
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another”
Romans 12:13 : —
“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality”
Romans 12:15-16 : —
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, weep with them that weepBe of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits”
Romans 12:18 : —
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men”
Romans 12:20 : —
“Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head”
Romans 13:8 : —
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law”
Romans 14:1 : —
“Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations”
Romans 14:13 : —
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way”
Romans 14:19 : —
“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, things wherewith one may edify another”
Romans 15:1-2 : —
“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, not to please ourselvesLet every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification”
Romans 15:7 : —
“Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God”
Galatians 5:14 : —
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”
Galatians 5:22-23 : —
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithMeekness, temperance: against such there is no law”
Galatians 6:2 : —
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, so fulfil the law of Christ”
James 1:19 : —
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath”
James 2:8 : —
“If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well”
James 3:17 : —
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy”
James 4:11 : —
“Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge”
James 5:16 : —
“Confess your faults one to another, pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”
Hebrews 10:24-25 : —
“Let us consider one another to provoke unto love to good worksNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: so much the more, as ye see the day approaching”
Hebrews 12:14 : —
“Follow peace with all men, holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”
Hebrews 13:1 : —
“Let brotherly love continue”
Hebrews 13:16 : —
“But to do good to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased”
Hebrews 6:10 : —
“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, do minister”
Matthew 22:39 : —
“The second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”
Matthew 5:16 : —
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, glorify your Father which is in heaven”
Matthew 7:1 : —
“Judge not, that ye be not judged”
Matthew 7:12 : —
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law the prophets”
Proverbs 12:25 : —
“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad”
Proverbs 15:1 : —
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger”
Proverbs 17:17 : —
“A friend loveth at all times, a brother is born for adversity”
Proverbs 27:17 : —
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend”
Proverbs 3:27 : —
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it”
John 13:34-35 : —
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one anotherBy this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another”
Philippians 1:9 : —
“This I pray, that your love may abound yet more more in knowledge in all judgment”
Philippians 2:4 : —
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others”
Philippians 4:8 : —
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things”
Luke 6:31 : —
“As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise”
Titus 3:2 : —
“To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men”