38 Bible Verses about ethics, incentives towards

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it; for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, for kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all piety and sanctity. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,read more.
who wishes all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth.

Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as superior, to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you; but if you forgive not men, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain 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 you forgive not each one his brother from your hearts.

For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others.

But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint, and rue, and every kind of plant, and omit justice and the love of God. These things you ought to do, and not to omit those.

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.

for he that sows for his flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the body for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry, for which comes the wrath of God.

Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord,

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

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

lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings, and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

Be therefore followers of God, as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;

I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love; for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.

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

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

Children, obey [your] parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

For our exhortation was not of error, nor of impurity, nor with deceit, but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

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

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

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self 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 mansion with him.

He that conquers shall inherit these things, and I will be to him a God and he shall be to me a son.

that you may not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.

But when you make a feast, invite the poor, crippled, lame, blind, and you shall be blessed; for they cannot compensate you; for you shall be compensated at the resurrection of the just.