100 Bible Verses About Moral Responsibility

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed.

And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.

They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.

And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.