27 Bible Verses about piety

And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,

piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.

keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.

For Jesus in his life on earth offered prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and because of his piety his prayer was heard.

But let worldly fictions and old wives' tales alone. Train yourself for the religious life.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.

for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

And religion with contentment is a great means of gain.

He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God.

When Peter saw this, he said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that had made him able to walk?

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!

Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.

There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there,

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead.

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven hands that are holy, without any angry disputes.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of holy life, self-controlled,

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions.