36 Bible Verses about piety

To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

And know ye that Jehovah Hath separated a saintly one to Himself. Jehovah heareth in my calling to Him.

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

Because of thy reverence Doth He reason with thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:

who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

Keep my soul, for I am pious, Save Thy servant -- who is trusting to Thee, O Thou, my God.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who is in the heavens;

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling there,

And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.