28 Bible Verses about piety

all the days of our life.

and to fortitude knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience piety;

and to piety brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection charity.

having a form of godliness, but strangers to the power of it: from such turn away.

Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared;

But profane and groundless fables reject, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let these learn first to shew piety at home, and to make suitable returns to their parents: for this is becoming, and acceptable in the sight of God.

which things indeed have a pretence to wisdom in voluntary worship, and humiliation, and bodily penance, as having no regard to the satisfying of the flesh.

particularly for kings, and all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and virtue.

so do ye likewise outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

and one that feared God, with all his house; giving also much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.

And Peter seeing this said to the people, Men of Israel, why marvel ye at this, or why look ye so earnestly on us, as if by our own power or piety we had made this man able to walk?

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be observed by them: otherwise ye will have no reward from your Father, who is in heaven.

Let no one deprive you of your reward by an affected humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into what he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind;

And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray in public assemblies, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be taken notice of by men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

And one Ananias, a devout observer of the law, who had a good character from all the Jews that dwelt there,

And there was a man at Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and he was a just and a religious man, who expected the consolation of Israel; and the holy Spirit was upon him.

so faith, if it have not works, being alone, is dead.

iniquitous deeds) then the Lord knoweth how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgement to be punished:

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

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

but hospitable, benevolent, sober, just, holy, temperate;

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

But wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, nor suffer those that are entering to go in.

and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

but in good works, as becometh women professing godliness.