46 Bible Verses about Morality

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith excellence, to excellence, knowledge;

Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.

You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

When the foundations are destroyed, what can the godly accomplish?"

For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

"The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Be our king!'

Justice is driven back; godliness stands far off. Indeed, honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

The Exalted God is my shield, the one who delivers the morally upright.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

"But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: 'The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?) -- he who gets rich by extortion!'

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

"You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

"'When a person sins in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened) and he does not make it known, then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.