36 Bible Verses about piety

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

[Is] not your fear [in God] your confidence? [Is not] your hope even the integrity of your ways?

"{What is worse}, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before} God.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself [the] faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him.

and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].

Does he reprove you because of your reverence [or] enter into judgment with you?

who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.

But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.

Watch over my life because I [am] faithful. You [are] my God; save your servant. [I am] the one who trusts you.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

which [things] {although they have}, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, {do not have any value} against the indulgence of the flesh.

on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

In the [same] way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.

devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God {continually}.

And [when he] saw [it], Peter replied to the people, "Men [and] Israelites, why are you astonished at this? Or why are you staring at us, as [if] by our own power or godliness we have made him walk?

"And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; {otherwise} you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand [and] pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live [there],

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem {whose name was} Simeon, and this man [was] righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

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

Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.

[then] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,

Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and dispute.

but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled,

And most certainly, great is the mystery of godliness: Who was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.

constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness.

I will also clothe its priests with salvation, and its faithful will shout exuberantly for joy.