68 Bible Verses about ethics, and grace

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:

For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do.

And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days.

For they will sin against thee (for no man which will not sin) and thou wert angry with them and gave them before the enemy, and they carried them away their captives to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

They will search out iniquities; they completed a search searched out: and a man drew near, and a deep heart.

All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;

But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

This day Jehovah thy God commands thee to do these laws and judgments: and watch thou to do them with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

And watch thou his laws and his commands which I am commanding thee this day, that it shall be good to thee and to thy sons after thee, and that thou shalt prolong the days upon the land that Jehovah thy God gave to thee, all the days.

Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee.

And the book of this law shall not depart from thy mouth; and meditate thou in it day and night, so that thou shalt watch to do according to all written in it: for then thou shalt prosper thy ways, and then thou shalt be wise.

Only watch greatly to do the command and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God and to go in all his ways, and to watch his commands, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And watch the watches of Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways, to watch his laws, his commands and his judgments, and his testimonies, as written in the law of Moses, so that thou shalt consider all that thou shalt do and all Where thou shalt turn there:

And being if thou shalt hear all that I shall command thee, and go in my way and do the straight in mine eyes to watch my laws and my commands as David my servant did, and I was with thee and built to thee a faithful house as I built to David, and I gave Israel to thee.

And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.

But this word I commanded them, saying, Hear to my voice, and I was to you for God, and in shall be to me for a people: and go in all the ways which I shall command you, so that it shall be well to you.

Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.

(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge; And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion; And in devotion brotherly love; and in brotherly love, love.

Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.

And every one having this hope in him purifies himself, as he himself is pure.

The entrance of thy words will enlighten; causing the simple to understand.

And now Israel, hear to the laws and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye shall live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers gave to you.

Justice is thy testimonies forever: cause me to understand and I shall live.

For the command is a lamp, and the law a light; and the way of life the reproof of instruction:

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God. Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual. And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh.

And my spirit I will, give in the midst of you, and I made that ye shall go in my laws, and my judgments shall ye watch and do.

If ye love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever; The Spirit of truth; which the world cannot receive, for it sees it not, neither knows: and ye know it; for it shall remain with you, and shall be in you.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

As his divine power having bestowed upon us all things which for life and devotion, by the knowledge of him having called us by glory and fitness:

To incline our heart to him, to go in all his ways, and to watch his commands and his laws and his judgments which he commanded our fathers.

Also withhold thy servant from arrogant things; they shall not rule over me: then shall I be blameless, and I was acquitted from much transgression.

I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.

For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.

For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.

And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

Who also shall make you firm even to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

Dearly beloved, now are we the children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be: and we know that, if he be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.

And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.

But we expect new heavens and a new earth, according to promise, in which dwells justice.

The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity; And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.