40 Bible Verses about Morality, And Redemption
Most Relevant Verses
For I am Jehovah, your God, and ye were consecrated and ye were holy, for I am holy: and ye shall not make your souls unclean by any creeping thing creeping upon the earth. For I am Jehovah bringing up from the land of Egypt, to be to you for God: and ye shall be holy, for I am holy.
Therefore, be ye perfected, as your Father which is in the heavens is perfected.
Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.
But I say to you hearing, Love your enemies; do good to those hating you, Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing back; and your reward shall be much, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the graceless and evil. Be ye therefore compassionate, as also your Father is compassionate.
But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back; For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Attend to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will cause my judgment to rest for the light of the peoples.
And God will speak all these words, saying, I am Jehovah thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants. There shall be no other God to thee to my face.read more.
Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me; And doing kindness to thousands to them loving me and to them watching my commands. Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not cleanse him who shall take his name in vain.
And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.
Just art thou, O Jehovah, and upright thy judgments. Thos didst command justice thy testimonies, and faithfulness exceedingly.
Announcing his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel. He did not thus to every nation: and judgments they knew them not Praise ye Jah.
Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed.
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes; Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:
And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood. Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil; Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.read more.
Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye shall be willing and hear, ye shall eat the good of the land. And if ye shall refuse and rebel, ye shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah spake. How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing Thy silver was for dross, thy wine adulterated with water. Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies. For if ye shall bring up to me burnt-offerirgs, and your gifts, I will not delight; and I will not look upon the peace-offerings of your fatlings. Remove from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the music of thy lyres.read more.
Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.
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?
For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For these comes the Wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.
And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete. For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be Whoever therefore, should loose one of the least of these commands, and so teach men, he shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whoever should do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.read more.
For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ. None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared.
And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.
For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.
Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow. And remember that thou wert a servant in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God will redeem thee from thence; for this I commend thee to do this word.
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, and before the blind thou shalt not give a stumbling block, and thou shalt fear thy God: I Jehovah. Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.read more.
Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor keep anger with the sons of thy people, and didst love thy neighbor as thyself. I Jehovah.
When thy brother a Hebrew, or Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and serving thee six years; in the seventh year thou shalt send him away free from thee. And when thou shalt send him away free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty. Furnishing, thou shalt furnish to him from thy sheep and from thy threshing floor, and from thy wine vat: with which Jehovah thy God blessed thee thou shalt give to him.read more.
And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God will redeem thee: for I command thee this word this day.
And when thou shalt gather thy vineyard thou shalt not glean after thee; to the stranger, and to the orphan, and to the widow it shall be. And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt: for this I command thee to do this word. shall be to thee, so that thy days shall be prolonged upon the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.
Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
And I gave to you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you: and I turned away your heart of stone from your flesh, and I gave to you an heart of 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.
Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
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.
And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.read more.
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law. And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.
For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.
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. For God is working in you also to will and to work by benevolence.
And now ye also put them all away; anger, wrath, badness, slander, shameful language out of your mouth. Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds; And having put on the new, being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him having created him:read more.
Where no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, free: but Christ all things, and in all. Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:
For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.
