38 Bible Verses about ethics, incentives towards

for rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise from the same; for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; for kings, and all who are in high position, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,read more.
Who wisheth all men to be saved, and to come into a full knowledge of truth.

Submit yourself to every human ordinance, for the Lord's sake; whether to a king as supreme; or to governors, as sent through him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for praise to those who do well;

"For, if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you; but, if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

"Happy are the merciful: because they shall receive mercy.

for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

So also will My Heavenly Father do to you, if ye forgive not, each one his brother, from your hearts."

For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment.

"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law??he judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; but these it was proper to have done, and those not to have omitted.

"But woe to you Pharisees! because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb; but ye pass by judgment and the love of God. Now these things it was needful to do, and not to leave those undone.

They profess to know God; but by their works they deny Him; being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work worthless.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

because he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry; on account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience;

Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;

for ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light

It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?

and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to Him Who died for them, and rose again.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich.

who gave Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

In this we have known the love, that He laid down His soul in our behalf; and we ought to lay down our souls in behalf of the brethren.

But, of well-doing, and contributing, be not forgetful; for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

Wherefore, we also make it our aim??hether being at home or being from home??o be well-pleasing to Him.

Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile; but even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, Who proveth our hearts.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Jesus answered, and said to him, "If any one loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him.

He that overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and He will be to Me a son.

that you appear not to men to be fasting, but to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who seeth in secret will recompense you.

but, when you make a feast, call the poor, maimed, lame, blind; and happy shall you be; because they have not wherewith to recompense you; for recompense will be made to you in the resurrection of the righteous."