100 Bible Verses About Morality

But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

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:

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

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

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

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.

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

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

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

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

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.