75 Bible Verses about ethics, personal
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Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
And the second like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these.
Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal.read more.
Thou shalt not testify against thy friend for falsehood. Thou shalt not desire thy friend's house, thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife, and his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and all which is to thy friend.
Thou shalt not kill, and thou shalt not commit adultery, and thou shalt not steal.read more.
And thou shalt not speak false testimony against thy friend: and thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife; and thou shalt not long for thy friend's house, his field, and his servant, and his maid, his ox and his ass, and all that is to thy friend.
Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor keep anger with the sons of thy people, and didst love thy neighbor as thyself. I Jehovah.
Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good. In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.
Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.
Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work.
And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:
Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens. When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward. But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does:read more.
That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.
And when he hunted not after, and God let fall into his hand, and I set to thee a place where he shall flee there. And if a man shall act proudly against his friend to kill him with craftiness, from mine altar shalt thou take him to die.
But I say to you, That every one becoming angry with his brother, shall be subject to judgment: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca, should be, subject to the council: and whoever should say, O foolish, shall be subject to a hell of fire.
As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.
Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not make to thee a carved thing, any appearance that is in the heavens from above, and which is in the earth underneath, and that is in the waters under the earth:
Ye shall not make to yourselves vain things, and carving, and a pillar ye shall not set up to you, and a stone of imagery ye shall not give in your land, to worship upon it: for I Jehovah your God.
And, now fear ye Jehovah and serve him in uprightness and in truth; and remove the gods which your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.
And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:
And he says to me, See, not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them keeping the words of the prophecy of this book; worship God.
Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not cleanse him who shall take his name in vain.
Thou shalt not lift up the name of Jehovah thy God for evil, for Jehovah will not acquit whoever shall lift up his name for evil.
And ye shall not swear in my name for falsehood, and profane the name of thy God: I Jehovah.
If thou shalt not watch to do all the words of this law being written in this book, to fear this honored and fearful name JEHOVAH THY GOD;
Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy.
And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father he in the heavens, Holy be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be, as in heaven, also upon the earth.
And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.
Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.
Six days shall work be done, and the seventh day the Sabbath, a holy rest to Jehovah: all doing work in the day of the Sabbath, dying, shall die.
Six days thou shalt work, and in the seventh day thou shalt cease: and in ploughing and in harvest thou shalt cease.
Ye shall watch my Sabbaths, and ye shall fear my holy place: I Jehovah.
And the people of the land bringing wares and all grain in the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take from them in the Sabbath and in the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the debt of every hand.
Happy the man that shall do this, and the son of man that shall lay hold upon it; watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and watching his hand from doing all evil.
This day Jehovah thy God commands thee to do these laws and judgments: and watch thou to do them with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.
When a man shall take a new wife, he shall not go out in the war, and nothing shall pass upon him for any word: he shall be free to his house one year, and gladden his wife whom he took.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.
And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband: And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.
Women, place yourselves under your own husbands, as was permitted in the Lord. Men, love ye the wives, and be not embittered against them.
Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.read more.
And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.
Honor thy father and thy mother, so that thy days shall be prolon upon the land which Jehovah thy gave to thee.
And he striking his father and his mother, dying be shall die.
When a man, a man who shall lightly esteem his father and his mother, dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed ha father and his mother: his blood is upon him.
And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.
Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.
Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.
Hear to thy father that begat thee, and thou shalt not despise thy mother when growing old.
Children, listen to parents in all things: for this is pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, irritate not your children, lest they be discouraged.
Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;
And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.
And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.
And consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and call a letting go free in the land, to all inhabiting it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and return ye each to his possession, and each to his family shall ye turn back.
And every daughter possessing an inheritance from the tribe of the sons of Israel, to one of the families of the tribe of her father shall she be for wife, so that the sons of Israel shall possess each the inheritance of his fathers.
If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her.
And he will say, Send me away now, for a sacrifice of the family to us in the city; and my brother he commanded me: and now if I found grace in thine eyes, I will slip away now and see my brethren. For this he came not to the table of the king.
Servants, listen ye in all things to lords according to the flesh; not in eyeservice as pleasing men; but in simplicity of heart, fearing God:
Lords, render ye to servants Justice and equality; knowing that ye also have a Lord in the heavens.
If thou shalt buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve: and in the seventh he shall go forth free gratuitously.
Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;
Let as many servants as are under the yoke deem their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the doctrines be not defamed.
Servants to be subordinate to their own masters, to be pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning.
Thou shalt not oppress the poor and needy hireling from thy brethren, or from thy stranger which is in thy land in thy gates. In his day thou shalt give his hire, and the sun shall not go down upon it, for he is poor, and he lifted up his soul to it; and he will cry against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.
If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me; And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?
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