67 Bible Verses about ethics, incentives towards

For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it: For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil.

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

According to the mouth of the precept which they shall shew thee, and according to the judgment which they shall say to thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not turn aside from the word which they shall announce to thee, to the right, and to the left And the man which shall do in pride not to hear to the priest, he standing to serve there Jehovah thy God, or to the judge, and that man shall die: and put thou away evil from Israel

If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.

Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one Deliver the poor and needy one: take away out of the hand of the unjust

I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men; For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity. For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God;read more.
Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority; Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you. But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.

Wherefore didst thou despise the word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou didst strike with the sword, and his wife thou tookest to thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. And now the sword shall not depart from thy house even to forever; because that thou didst despise me, and thou wilt take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for wife.

Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.

Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining. Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up. 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.

And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.

Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.

But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.

They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.

Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me.

If I saw vanity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear.

With their sheep and with their oxen they will go to seek Jehovah; and they shall not find; he withdrew himself from them.

Then shall they cry to Jehovah and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them in that time, as their doings were evil.

And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption.

For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

And it being, if thou shalt not hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch to do all his commands and his laws which I command thee this day; and all these curses came upon thee, and overtook thee:

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. For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies:

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,

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

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:

Follow peace with all, and consecration, without which none shall see the Lord:

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:

It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

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:

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children; And walk ye in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us a gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of sweet odor.

I am Jehovah thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants.

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.

In this have we known love, for he set his soul for us: and we ought to set the souls for the brethren.

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.

Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord.

For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit: But as we have been tried by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, trying our hearts:

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.

Who will go up to the mountain of Jehovah? and who shall stand in his holy place? The blameless one of hands and the clean of heart; who lifted not up his soul to vanity, and swore not for deceit

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke? Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, and thou shalt bring the wandering poor to thy house? when thou shalt see the naked and cover him; and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh.

And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the whole burnt offerrings, and the sacrifices.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him.

And now, Israel, what does Jehovah thy God ask from thee but to fear Jehovah thy God, to go in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To watch the commands of Jehovah and his laws which I command thee this day, to be good for thee?

Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain? He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart. Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.read more.
In his eyes a reprobate being despised; and those fearing Jehovah, he will honor. Swearing to the friend, and he will not change. Not giving his silver for interest, and gave not presents against the innocent. He doing these things shall not be moved forever.

He conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be son to me.

Justice, justice shalt thou follow, so that thou live and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

And all these blessings came upon thee and overtook thee, when thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God.

And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Thus said Jehovah, Watch ye judgment and do justice; for my salvation drew near to come, and my justice to be uncovered. Happy the man that shall do this, and the son of man that shall lay hold upon it; watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and watching his hand from doing all evil.

Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity; And thou shalt give out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the humble soul; and thy light rising in darkness,, and thy thick darkness as the noon. And Jehovah led thee continually, and he satisfied thy soul in dry places, and he will make thy bones strong: and thou wed as a watered garden, and as a spring of water which its waters shall not deceive.read more.
And from thee the old wastes were built; the foundations of generation and generation thou shalt raise them up, and it was called to thee, Walling the breach, Turning back the beaten paths to dwell in. If thou shalt turn back thy foot from the Sabbath, doing thy delight in my holy day; and thou calledst to the Sabbath a delight for the holy of Jehovah, being honored; and thou honoredst him from doing thy ways, from finding thy delight, and speaking the word. Then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah, and I caused thee to ride upon the heights of the earth, and I caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah spake.

That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly.

But when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And happy shalt thou be; for they have not to give back to thee: for it shall be given back to thee at the rising up of the just.