36 Bible Verses about piety

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself; the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

and in fear of God, brotherly love; and in brotherly love, charity.

having the appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of his reverent fear;

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

Preserve my soul; for I am merciful, O thou my God, save thy slave that trusts in thee.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.

which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, but they have absolutely no value against the appetites of the flesh.

for kings, and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and integrity.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

But piety with contentment is great gain.

a devout man and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own virtue or godliness we had made this man walk?

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

Let no one govern you according to their own will under pretext of humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind,

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

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good witness of all the Jews who dwelt there,

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;

(And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.)

I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.

but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, temperate, just, holy, gentle,

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.

perverse disputings of men of corrupt understanding, and destitute of the truth, using piety as a source of gain: from such withdraw thyself.

but with good works (as becomes women professing godliness).

I will also clothe her priests with saving health, and her merciful ones shall shout aloud for joy.