34 Bible Verses about piety

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.

And the Lord said to Moses,

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

And when Peter saw it he said to the people, You men of Israel, why are you so greatly surprised at this man? or why are you looking at us as if by our power or virtue we had given him the use of his legs?

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion,

And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Even so faith without works is dead.

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;

And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

But clothed with good works, as is right for women who are living in the fear of God.