29 Bible Verses about behavior

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives

when they see how chaste and submissive you are.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

For it is the will of God that by doing right you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish people.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,

The man who does right has nothing to fear from the magistrates, as the wrongdoer has. If you want to have no fear of the authorities, do right, and they will commend you for it,

And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

For how do you wives know whether you will save your husbands? Or how do you husbands know whether you will save your wives?

And treat men just as you wish them to treat you.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

Use wisdom in dealing with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.

Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

If we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit.

Leave worldly, empty phrases alone, for they lead people deeper and deeper into godlessness,

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

But you must teach people the things that properly belong to wholesome teaching.

They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it;

Do not forget your former leaders, the men who brought you God's message. Remember how they ended their lives and imitate their faith.

Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

so that you may have the respect of the outsiders, and not be dependent upon anybody.

Dear friend, do not follow bad examples, but good ones. The man who does right is a child of God; the man who does wrong has never seen God.

They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.