46 Bible Verses about Morality

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now 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 judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.