36 Bible Verses about piety

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?

Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

But refuse profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O you my God, save your servant that trusts in you.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any value to the indulgence of the flesh.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews who dwelt there,

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;

And without doubt great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.

Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.

But (as becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.