48 Bible Verses about ethics, basis of

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples have seen his glory.

For when the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these men, not having law, are a law to themselves. Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them

Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for instruction, for reproof, for correction, for discipline in righteousness, so that the man of God may be qualified, having been completed for every good work.

But he said, Blessed rather, are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.

But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Bless LORD, ye his [heavenly] agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.

Deal bountifully with thy servant that I may live, so I will observe thy word.

I manifested thy name to the men whom thou gave me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.

I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee an opened door that none is able to shut it, because thou have little power, and thou keep my word, and did not deny my name.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if ye shall hearken to the commandments of LORD your God, which I command you this day, and the curse, if ye shall not hearken to the commandments of LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

And yet they did not hearken to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of LORD.

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And the king went up to the house of LORD, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small. And he read in their ears all the words of the book o And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before LORD, to walk after LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the coven

For whoever may do the will of God, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you.read more.
I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you. Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. These things I command you, so that ye may love each other.

If any man presumes to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are commandments of Lord.

For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you ye also should do.

Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification. For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,

forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,

For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.

But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to

for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as their scholars.

He was the TRUE light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, the Son also does these things in like manner.

He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day. Because I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, except by me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting

Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination. And thou shall not lay with any beast to defile thyself with it, nor shall any woman stand before a beast, to lay down with it. It is a perversion.

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher, for there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God, are those that have been instituted.

They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore, render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.

And having answered, Jesus said to them, Render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they marveled at him.

And he said to them, Then render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.

Jesus answered him, Thou would have no authority against me, unless it were given thee from above. Because of this he who delivered me to thee has greater sin.

So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil.read more.
Therefore there is a need to be subordinate, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience.

Therefore because of the Lord, ye should submit to every human establishment, whether to a king as being supreme, or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers and praise of well-doers.

Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.