23 Bible Verses about Morality

Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.

For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality;

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

[Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law;

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?"

Even to have law-suits with one another is in itself evidence of defeat. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be defrauded?