Bible Verses About Morality

“Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.[’]”

“Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.”

“The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.”

“So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them”

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

“But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.”

“My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.”

“Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.”

“But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.”

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

“There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.”

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

“He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.”

“Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.” So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.”

“The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.”

“Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.”

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.[’]”

“See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.”

“Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.”

“A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.”

“So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.”

“Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the one who loves God is known by God. So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.”

“If he called them gods to whom the word of God came — and the Scripture cannot be broken —”

“Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.”

“Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.”

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”

“Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.”

“Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.”

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

“And the things that you have heard me say among many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be qualified to teach others as well.”

“Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities. You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

“Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.”

“Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.”

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.”

“Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.”

“He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.”

“A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?[’]”

“A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.”

“Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.”

“We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.”

“You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period. You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her. You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.”

“Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.”

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?”

“Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.”

“Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?”