29 Bible Verses about behavior

In the same way, you wives must be submissive to your husbands, so that even those who will not believe the Word may be won over without a word by the behaviour of their wives,

when they see how chaste and reverent you are.

in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.

as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

Magistrates are no terror to an honest man, though they are to a bad man. If you want to avoid being alarmed at the government-authorities, lead an honest life and you will be commended for it;

Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body,

set them an example of good conduct; be sincere and serious in your teaching,

O wife, how do you know you may not save your husband? O husband, how do you know you may not save your wife?

As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.

Let Christian wisdom rule your behaviour to the outside world; make the very most of your time;

Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

You must instruct people in what is due to sound doctrine.

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.