36 Bible Verses about piety

in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

Realize that the Lord shows the godly special favor; the Lord responds when I cry out to him.

to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.

They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

Protect me, for I am loyal! O my God, deliver your servant, who trusts in you!

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body -- a wisdom with no true value -- they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

even for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

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

Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

For "physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come."

A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

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

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

-- if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

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

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

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

I will protect her priests, and her godly people will shout exuberantly.