46 Bible Verses about Morality

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,

Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."

who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts [one] after another accusing or even defending them

Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].

Dear friend, do not imitate [what is] evil, but [what is] good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

For it is necessary [for] this perishable [body] to put on incorruptibility, and this mortal [body] to put on immortality.

Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

The Rock, his work [is] perfect, for all his ways [are] just; [he is] a faithful God, and {without injustice}; righteous and upright [is] he.

To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding,

For from the creation of the world, his invisible [attributes], both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, [although they] do not have the law, are a law to themselves,

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down}, because [he is] poor and {his life depends on it}; [do this] so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

When the foundations are destroyed what can [the] righteous do?

for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.

Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

"The trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Rule over us.'

And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart [will follow] after it.

who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.

My shield [is] with God who saves the upright of heart.

maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in [the things] in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.

Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?

Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

" 'You will not {spread} a false report. Do not lift your hand with [the] wicked to be a malicious witness.

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother.

And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden {you may freely eat},

Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh,

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

And one of the scribes came up [and] heard them debating. [When he] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"

Therefore it is already completely a loss for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

" 'When a person sins in that he hears [the] utterance of a curse and he [is] a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make [it] known, then he shall bear his guilt.

Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes."