34 Bible Verses about Lifestyles

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. And bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for bands between thine eyes. And write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates.

Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing. But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.read more.
Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away. For this, the unjust shall not rise up in judgment, and the sinful in the assembly of the just For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.

Happy the blameless of way, they going in the law of Jehovah. Happy they watching his testamonies; they shall seek him with all the Also they worked not iniquity: they went in his ways.read more.
Thou didst command thy charges to be watched greatly. Would that my ways were directed to watch thy laws!

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

I will be prudent in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I will go about in integrity of heart in the midst of my house.

Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul.

Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared. The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.

Thine eyes shall look straight before, and thine eyelashes shall be right before thee. Make level the track of thy feet, and all thy ways shall be prepared. Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.

And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.

I gave thee a watch-tower among my people, a fortification, and thou shalt know and try their way.

And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice, Not to eat upon the mountains, and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, and not to defile his neighbor's wife, and he shall not come near to a woman of uncleanness. And he shall not oppress a man; he shall turn back his pledge to the debtor; he will not strip off plunder, his bread he will give to him hungry, and the naked he will cover with a garment;read more.
And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man. In my laws he shall go and he watched my judgments to do the truth; he is just; living, he shall live, says the Lord Jehovah.

For they ate and they shall not be satisfied, and they committed fornication and they shall not spread abroad: for with Jehovah they left off to watch.

Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each. For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action: So we, the many, are one body in Christ, and the members for one another.read more.
And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith; Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction; Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness. Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good. In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another. In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; holding out under pressure; persevering in prayer; Participating in the necessities of the holy ones; pursuing hospitality. Praise them driving you out: praise ye, and curse not. To rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with the weeping. Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves. Giving hack evil for evil to none. Providing good things before all men. If possible of you, living peaceably with all men. Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord. If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light. As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love; Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound; And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;read more.
That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have been the brass of echoes, and the shouting cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.read more.
Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, It demeans itself not unbecomingly, seeks not the things of itself, is not irritated, reckons no evil; Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth; Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. ' Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed. For we know by parts, and we prophesy by parts. And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed. When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child. For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known. And now remains faith, hope, love, these three; and the greater of these, love.

Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love;

And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

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. And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice; Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;read more.
(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser. And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work, To slander none, to be without fighting, equitable, showing all meekness to all men.

And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose. For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked, Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good,read more.
Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God; Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection. Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority; Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.read more.
(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)

And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.