45 Bible Verses about Doing The Right Thing

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.

But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

But it is good to have an interest in a good cause at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

This is the Lord's doing; it is a wonder in our eyes.

For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.

Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.

Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?

But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;

Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help.