46 Bible Verses about Morality

And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

Woe to those saying to evil 'good,' And to good 'evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

The Rock! -- perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

When the foundations are destroyed, The righteous -- what hath he done?

For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

'The trees have diligently gone to anoint over them a king, and they say to the olive, Reign thou over us.

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son is an affliction to his mother.

And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, 'Which is the first command of all?'

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

And when a person doth sin, and hath heard the voice of an oath, and he is witness, or hath seen, or hath known -- if he declare not, then he hath borne his iniquity:

See, this alone I have found, that God made man upright, and they -- they have sought out many devices.