46 Bible Verses about Morality

Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”

‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.

Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.

“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself rich with loans?’

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

My shield is with God,
Who saves the upright in heart.

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.

Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands far away;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot enter.

Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’

To do righteousness and justice
Is desired by the Lord more than sacrifice.

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lord and it become sin in you.

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

For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,

being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

To know wisdom and instruction,
To discern the sayings of understanding,

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.

in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,