38 Bible Verses about ethics, incentives towards

For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same. For he is the minister of God to you for that which is good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God to inflict punishment on him that does evil.

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and gravity. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,read more.
who is willing that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the king, as supreme ruler, or to governors, as those sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of those who do well.

For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall receive mercy.

for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.

So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if, from your hearts, you forgive not every one his brother's offenses.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

But alas for you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have left undone.

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.

and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive his reward for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience,

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord;

For you were formerly darkness; but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for them selves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;

Be you, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

I do not speak this as a commandment, but on account of the zeal of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But forget not to do good, and to be liberal: for with such, sacrifices God is well pleased.

For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is wellpleasing to the Lord.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile; but as God had judged us worthy to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Jesus answered and said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

He that overcomes, shall inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; and you shall be blessed; for they have no power to repay you; but you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.