46 Bible Verses about Morality

And hereunto, give all diligence: In your faith, minister virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

Be not deceived: malicious speakings corrupt good manners.

which show the deed of the law written in their hearts: While their conscience beareth witness unto them, and also their thoughts, accusing one another, or excusing,

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

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

Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.

Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: He that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil seeth not God.

Woe be unto them that call evil good, and good evil: which make darkness light, and light darkness, that make sour sweet, and sweet sour.

For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility: and this mortal must put on immortality.

Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Let not the body be applied unto fornication, but unto the Lord, and the Lord unto the body.

He is a Rock, and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.

To learn wisdom, instruction, understanding, prudence,

So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse,

blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

For if the gentiles, which have no law, do of nature the things contained in the law: then they having no law, are a law unto themselves,

Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.

Give him his hire the same day, and let not the sun go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee.

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the spirit.

For the foundations will be cast down, and what hath the righteous done?

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and thy soul delighteth in knowledge;

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

know that a man is not justified by the deeds of the law: but by the faith of Jesus Christ - and therefore we have believed on Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the deeds of the law: because that no flesh shall be justified by the deeds of the law.

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

The trees went to anoint a king over them, and said unto the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'

And therefore is equity gone aside, and righteousness standeth far off; truth is fallen down in the street, and the thing that is plain and open, may not be showed.

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

And why? Judgment shall be turned again unto righteousness, and all such as are true in heart shall follow it.

Which, being past repentance, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness.

My help cometh of God, who preserveth them that are true of heart.

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?"

Art thou called a servant? Care not for it. Nevertheless if thou mayst be free, use it rather.

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

And the LORD God commanded Adam, saying, "Of all the trees of the garden see thou eat:

And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,

Now, like as thou knowest not the way of the wind, nor how the bones are filled in a mother's womb: Even so thou knowest not the works of God, which is the workmaster of all.

And there came one of the scribes, that had heard them disputing together, and perceived that he had answered them well, and asked him, "Which is the first of all the commandments?"

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

When a soul hath sinned and heard the voice of cursing and is a witness: whether he hath seen or known of it, if he have not uttered it, he shall bear his sin.

Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.