33 Bible Verses about Ethics
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And I say to you, make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting tabernacles.
in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in teaching, showing incorruptness, gravity,
because of the hope laid up for you in Heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
"All things, therefore, whatsoever ye wish that men should do to you, so do ye also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
who, indeed, show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with it, and between one another their thoughts accusing or even excusing them;)
If any one wills to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself.
in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;
A second like it is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He that does good is of God; the evil-doer has not seen God.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.
And, seeing the multitudes, He went up into the mountain; and, He having sat down, His disciples came to Him:
"Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.
God is a spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
We know that every one who has been begotten of God sins not; but he who was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not.
for I hungered, and ye gave Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;
But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
"Honor your father and mother" (which, indeed, is the first commandment with a promise),
And, as he was reasoning about righteousness, continence, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming terrified, answered, "Go your way for the present; and, when I obtain a suitable opportunity, I will call for you;"
and he who bade you and him, coming, shall say to you, 'Give place to this man;' and then you shall, with shame, begin to occupy the lowest place.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Topics on Ethics
Business Ethics
2 Peter 3:14Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.
ethics, and grace
Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:
ethics, basis of
Romans 1:18-20For God's wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;
ethics, incentives towards
Romans 13:3-4for rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise from the same;
ethics, personal
Matthew 7:12"All things, therefore, whatsoever ye wish that men should do to you, so do ye also to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
ethics, social
1 Timothy 2:1-2I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;