31 Bible Verses about Doing The Right Thing

If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

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

If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.

For it is God's will that by doing what is right you should thus silence the ignorant talk of foolish persons.

Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also.

But when you are giving in charity, let not your left hand perceive what your right hand is doing,

For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.

It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--

For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

You well know that whatever right thing any one does, he will receive a requital for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free man.

"What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."

and yet only one thing is really necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion and she shall not be deprived of it."

"Why, too, do you not of yourselves arrive at just conclusions?

And who will be able to harm you, if you show yourselves zealous for that which is good?

But even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are to be envied. So do not be alarmed by their threats, nor troubled;

With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.

But you, brethren, must not grow weary in the path of duty;

For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves;

Let the dishonest man act dishonestly still; let the filthy make himself filthy still; let the righteous practise righteousness still; and let the holy be made holy still."

For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

but test all such, and retain hold of the good.

"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

Martha meanwhile was busy and distracted in waiting at table, and she came and said, "Master, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do all the waiting? Tell her to assist me."