30 Bible Verses about Doing The Right Thing

[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.

For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.

Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes.

I aim at being above reproach not only from God but also from men.

When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

Jesus answered him, "You do not understand just now what I am doing, but you will understand it later on."

Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

And why do you not yourselves settle what is right?

Yet who will wrong you if you have a passion for goodness?

Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

by rendering service with goodwill as to the Lord and Master, not to men.

As for yourselves, brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right.

[Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law;

Let the wicked still be wicked, let the filthy still be filthy, let the righteous still do right, let the holy still be 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;

So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes;

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.

For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.

but test them all, retaining what is good

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."