13 Bible Verses about Conduct, Proper

if it has the least appearance of evil, reject it.

only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,

Let your actions be such, with regard to others, as you should think reasonable with regard to yourselves, for this is the substance of the law and the prophets.

behave to others in the same manner, as you desire they would behave to you.

distribute to the necessity of the saints; cultivate hospitality.

that being capable to distinguish what is best, you may remain stedfastly sincere until the day of Christ,

that you may be without reproach, the inoffensive spotless children of God in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation (among whom you should shine as stars in the world,

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

a bishop therefore ought to be of an unspotted character, to have but one wife, to be sober, prudent, grave, hospitable, and qualified for teaching:

to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:

that your conduct may be worthy of the Lord, in every respect agreeable to him, being friutful in every kind of virtue, and increasing in divine knowledge: