27 Bible Verses about piety

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety,

and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid.

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

but avoid profane and silly myths; exercise yourself in piety;

But if any widow has children or relatives, let them learn first to support their family and to make returns to their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.

for kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all piety and sanctity.

So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

But piety with contentment is great gain.

a pious man, and one fearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the people, and praying to God always,

And Peter seeing it answered the people, Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this? or why do you look intently at us as if by our power or piety we had made him walk?

But take heed not to perform your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise indeed, you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,

And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.

And a certain Ananias, a man [living] according to the law, approved by all the Jews living [there],

And behold, there was a man at Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

So also faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

And there were Jews living at Jerusalem, pious men, of every nation under heaven;

I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations;

but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,

And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you enter not into it, neither do you suffer those entering to go in.

and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

but with good works, which become women professing godliness.