28 Bible Verses about piety

to serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

and to courage knowledge, And to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience,

and to patience godliness, And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

Having a form of godliness but denying the power of it.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and being heard from his fears; Tho' he was a son,

But avoid profane and old wives fables, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

and to requite their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.

Which things (though they have indeed a shew of wisdom, in voluntary worship and humility, and not sparing the body) yet are not of any value, but are to the satisfying of the flesh.

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

So ye likewise outwardly appear righteous to men; but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

But godliness with content is great gain.

A devout man, and fearing God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

And Peter seeing it, answered the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or, why do ye fix your eyes on us, as if by our own power or piety, we had made this man to walk?

Take heed that ye practise not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may appear to men: verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

For bodily exercise profiteth a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having the promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law,

And behold there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and religious, waiting for the Consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

So likewise faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to the day of judgment to be punished.

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

I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting:

But a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate, Holding fast the faithful word,

The mystery of godliness is the pillar and ground of the truth, and without controversy a great thing: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified by the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.

But wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: ye go not in, neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in.

evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing the gain is godliness. From such withdraw thyself.

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.