46 Bible Verses about Morality
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So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.
Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.
God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.
Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?
More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Topics on Morality
Morality, And Creation
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
Morality, And Redemption
Leviticus 11:44-45For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.