Topic

Morality

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Romans 13:8–10

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Matthew 7:12

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Mark 7:20–23

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:33

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Romans 13:1–7

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:48

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:15

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

1 Peter 1:16

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

Romans 13:1

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 Timothy 3:16–17

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Matthew 22:37–40

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

1 John 2:15–17

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Ephesians 5:5

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Romans 2:15

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Leviticus 19:18

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Romans 12:2

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 John 1:8

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

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Matthew 5:27–28

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Titus 2:7–8

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Psalms 119:172

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Ephesians 5:22–24

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:19–20

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:27

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Galatians 5:21

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

2 Kings 2:23–24

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →

Acts 17:10–11

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:1–17

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Titus 2:1

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Amos 5:21–24

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. — read the full passage →

Titus 2:5

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Romans 1:26–32

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

2 Corinthians 6:14–18

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:22–23

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–2

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 6:17–19

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Proverbs 10:9

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Luke 6:27–28

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Colossians 3:9

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Matthew 5:43–44

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Romans 14:10–12

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

John 6:63

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Matthew 7:1–5

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

1 Peter 2:12

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

Isaiah 59:13–15

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. — read the full passage →

2 Peter 1:5–8

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

1 Peter 2:11–12

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:43–48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

Hosea 4:1–2

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

Mark 9:35

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

Matthew 18:10

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Colossians 3:1–2

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

Ephesians 2:1–3

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Mark 7:18

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

1 Corinthians 4:1–2

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 8:1–13

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

John 10:35

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

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