46 Bible Verses about Morality

Yes, for this very reason you do your part with all diligence. Supply virtue to your faith. Add knowledge to your virtue.

Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

They show the work of the law written in their hearts. Their conscience also bears witness, and their thoughts accuse or excuse them.

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication.

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

They know the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death! And yet, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who do them.

Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is from God. He who does evil has not seen God.

You are doomed! You call evil good and you call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter, sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.

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

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

To know wisdom and instruction. To discern and understand words.

His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

When those of the nations, who have no law, practice by nature the things of the law they are a law to themselves even though they do not have any law.

Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.

Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

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

What can a righteous person do when the foundations of life are destroyed?

Wisdom enters your heart. Knowledge gives you pleasure.

Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.

To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

The trees went out to anoint a king over them. They said to the olive tree: 'Be our king.'

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away. Truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot come in.

It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.

For judgment will again be righteous. The upright in heart will follow it.

They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).

God is my shield who saves the upright in heart.

Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection).

Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own (by extortion) and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on?

Were you called being a slave? Do not let it worry you. But if you can become free, do so.

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Do not spread false rumors. Do not help a guilty person by offering false testimony.

A wise son makes a father glad: but a foolish son is sorrow (depression) (grief) for his mother.

Jehovah God commanded the man: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden.

You have no use for knowledge and you refuse to respect Jehovah.

You do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman. Even so you do not know the works of God who creates all.

One of the other scribes came to him with a question: What commandment is the first of all?

It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)?

Jehovah continued: If you are a witness under oath who refuses to tell what you saw or what you know, you are sinning and will be punished.

You see! I have found only this, that God made man upright. But they have sought out many devices (schemes) (reasonings).