31 Bible Verses about Doing The Right Thing

So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong;

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

For I aim at being above reproach, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

"But when you give alms, do not let your right hand know what your left is doing,

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually do.

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

"only one thing is really necessary. Mary, moreover, has chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her."

"And why do you not, even yourselves, judge what is right?

Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good?

But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

slaving with good-will from your heart, as for the Lord and not for men;

But you, brothers, must not grow weary in well-doing.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

He who is wicked, let him be wicked still; He who is filthy, let him be filthy still; He who is righteous, lit him practise righteousness still; And he who is holy, let him be made holy still.

For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the ruler's authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise.

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

"The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes,

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

But try all, holding fast to the good.

"Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."