26 Bible Verses about Morality

Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge:

be not deceived : "vicious conversation corrupts good morals."

for they shew that the duties prescrib'd by the law, are written in their hearts, their consciences bearing witness to it, by their own reasonings alternately accusing and excusing them.

throw off then your vices as dregs and scum: and receive with docility that genuine doctrine, which is effectual to your salvation.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.

my beloved, don't imitate vice, but virtue. he that does good, is a child of God: he that does evil, is not acquainted with God.

for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

for ever since the creation of the world, his eternal power and divinity, things in themselves invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made; so that they are without excuse:

which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:

when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature what the law prescribes, tho' these have not the law, they are a law to themselves:

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.

souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

One of the Scribes, that had heard their dispute, observing the propriety of his answers, propos'd this question to him, which is the principal commandment of all?

beside, you are absolutely in the wrong in going to law with one another at all: why don't you rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer loss?