46 Bible Verses about Morality

For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge,

Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."

They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The person who does what is good is from God. The person who does what is evil has never seen God.

"How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter!"

For what is decaying must be clothed with what cannot decay, and what is dying must be clothed with what cannot die.

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will make them both unnecessary. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God never unjust righteous and upright is he.

These proverbs are for gaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;

For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes his eternal power and divine nature have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law.

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Pay his wages that same day before the sun sets, because he is poor and his livelihood depends on it. Otherwise, he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will incur guilt."

Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided.

When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

"Once upon a time the trees went out to consecrate a king for themselves. "So they told the olive tree, "Reign over us!'

I'll drive back justice, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth has fallen in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

Righteousness will be restored with justice, and all the pure of heart will follow it.

Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint.

God is my shield, the one who delivers the upright in heart.

Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.

"Will not all of these ridicule him with mocking scorn? They will say, "Woe to the one who hordes for himself what isn't his. How long will you enrich yourself by extortion?'

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that bother you. Of course, if you have a chance to become free, take advantage of the opportunity.

Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

"You are not to spread a false report, nor are you to join forces with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

The LORD God commanded the man: "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,

"Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Then one of the scribes came near and heard the Sadducees arguing with one another. He saw how well Jesus answered them, so he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of them all?"

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

"If someone sins because he has failed to testify after receiving notice to testify as a witness regarding what he has observed or learned, he is to be held responsible."

I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives."