18 Bible Verses about Lifestyles

What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things.

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him. For even as we have many members in one body, and not all members have the same function; so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.read more.
But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith. If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service. Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful. Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good. As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another. In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master. Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer. Be liberal to needy saints. Practise hospitality. Bless your persecutors, bless, and curse not. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits. Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all. If it be possible, so far as it lies with you, be at peace with all men. Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for God's wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary, therefore, If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will be heaping burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light. Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy; But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called. With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love; and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.

It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more. Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).read more.
So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.read more.
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up, is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing, but rejoices when the truth rejoices. It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring. Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded. For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect; but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away. When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things. For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood. Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called. With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive; and to be made new in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these. Put in practise also what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me; and the God of peace shall be with you.

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching; no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover; he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.read more.
For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he take charge of a church of God? He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil. He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work; they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come. For men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreligious, without natural affection, merciless, slanderous, dissolute, and brutal.read more.
They will hate goodness, they will be treacherous, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves, for the Lord's sake, to every human authority; whether it be to the Emperor as supreme ruler, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.read more.
For it is the will of God that by well-doing you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.