36 Bible Verses about piety

in piety and righteousness before him all our days.

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.

But know that Jehovah hath set apart the pious man for himself: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:

having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.

Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

Keep my soul, for I am godly; O thou my God, save thy servant who confideth in thee.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to the satisfaction of the flesh.

for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

But piety with contentment is great gain.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.

And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt there,

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;

Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, pious men, from every nation of those under heaven.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.

but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.

And I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.