28 Bible Verses about piety

in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,

piety with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with universal love.

keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.

For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard.

But make it your habit to let worldly and old women's stories alone. Continue training yourself for the religious life.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead peaceful, quiet lives in perfect piety and seriousness.

So you, too, on the outside seem to people to be upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Now the fact is, religion with contentment is a means of great gain.

a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.

When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind.

"Also, whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to attract the attention of people. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward.

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there,

Now there was in Jerusalem a man named Symeon, an upright, devout man; he was expecting to see the consolation of Israel, and he was under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

surely, then, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from trial and to keep wrongdoers under punishment for the day of judgment,

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

So I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven holy hands which are kept unstained by anger and dissensions.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.

but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.