26 Bible Verses about Morality

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

Do not deceive yourselves. Evil companions ruin good morals.

For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.

For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith 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."

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

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.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

Just then up came one of the Scribes who had heard them arguing, and realized that Jesus had answered them admirably. "What commandment," he asked, "is the first of all?"

Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?