Bible verses about "ethics" | NSB

¹ A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

³⁴ »I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵ »All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.«

³⁸ Then Peter said: »Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹ You who judge have no excuse. For when you judge another you condemn yourself. After all you do the same things.

¹² The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him. ¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted: »God tempts me.« God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one. ¹⁴ Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured). ¹⁵ Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

⁵ If we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ We know this that our old self was impaled with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. ⁷ He who has died is freed from sin. ⁸ If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. ⁹ We know that Christ being raised from the dead died no more; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died with reference to sin once. But the life that he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus. ¹² Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires. ¹³ Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God. ¹⁴ Sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view? ¹⁷ But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you. ¹⁸ After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness). ²⁰ When you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ You are now ashamed of the fruit you had at that time. For the results of these things is death. ²² Now you are free from sin and are servants to God. You have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting (eternal) life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We died to sin! How could we any longer live in it? ³ Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.

²¹ Integrity and honesty will protect me because I wait for you.

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing. ⁴ Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud). ⁵ Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered. ⁶ Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ When the perfect comes, the partial (imperfect) (incomplete) will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ¹³ Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!

⁸ Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law. ⁹ For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the law’s fulfillment.

¹⁶ God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed) ¹⁷ Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.