13 Bible Verses about Conduct, Proper

abstain from every form of evil.

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

All things, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

And as you wish men to do to you, do you also in like manner to them.

contribute to the necessity of saints, practise hospitality.

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

and strive to be quiet and pursue your own business, and work with your hands, as we charged you,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;