26 Bible Verses about Morality

even for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

Be not deceived; "evil communications corrupt good manners."

since they show that what the Law requireth is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts in turn accusing or defending them;

Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who do them.

Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God; he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such as fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

but knowing that a man is not accepted as righteous by the works of the Law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, we also have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted as righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be accepted as righteous.

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.

having your manner of life among the gentiles honorable; that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

And one of the scribes came up, having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is first of all?

Now therefore it is altogether an evil among you, that ye have suits against each other. Why do ye not rather submit to wrong? Why do ye not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?