46 Bible Verses about Morality
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But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.
Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.
being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.
If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law nor but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of the faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.
To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.
My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.
having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!
Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.
But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.
The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat;
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.
And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is the first commandment of all?
Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?
And if any one sin, and hear the voice of adjuration, and he is a witness whether he hath seen or known it, if he do not give information, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
Topics on Morality
Morality, And Creation
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.
Morality, And Redemption
Leviticus 11:44-45For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth.