Bible verses about "behavior" | Worsley

²⁶ Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who withhold the truth in unrighteousness; ¹⁹ for what is to be known of God is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it to them. ²⁰ Inasmuch as from the first creation of the world, the invisible things of Him, even his eternal power and Godhead, are, if attended to, clearly seen in his works: ²¹ so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened. ²² Pretending to be wise they Became fools: ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image like to corruptible man, and birds, and beasts, and reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to impurity, in the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. ²⁶ Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved. ²⁸ And as they were not careful to acknowledge God, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things that were not fit to be done: ²⁹ being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, injurious, haughty, proud, inventers of mischief, undutiful to parents, void of understanding, ³¹ covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, and unmerciful: ³² who though they knew the just judgement of God, (that they who commit such practises are worthy of death) yet not only do these very things, but also countenance and encourage others in the practice of them.

⁹ What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

¹⁰ Love worketh no evil to our neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ¹¹ And this let us observe, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. ¹² The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. ¹³ Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to gratify its irregular desires.

⁹ What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious persons, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

¹ Then he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold there was a certain disciple there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but of a Grecian father. ² Who was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium: ³ wherefore Paul was desirous that he should go forth with him, and took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. ⁴ And as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees that had been made by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. ⁵ And so the churches were established in the faith, and increased in number daily. ⁶ And when they had passed through Phrygia and Galatia, being forbidden by the holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, they came to Mysia, and endeavoured to go to Bithynia: ⁷ but the Spirit suffered them not. ⁸ So they passed by Mysia, and came down to Troas. ⁹ And Paul saw a vision in the night, There stood a certain man of Macedonia, intreating him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us. ¹⁰ And as soon as he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to depart into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to preach the gospel to them. ¹¹ Therefore we set sail from Troas, and came in a direct course to Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis; ¹² and from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a Roman colony. And we staid some time in this city. ¹³ And on the sabbath-day we went out of the city to a river-side, where there used to be prayer: and we sat down and preached to the women that resorted thither. ¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a purple-seller of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things that were spoken by Paul. ¹⁵ And when she was baptized and her family, she requested us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and lodge there. And she constrained us. ¹⁶ Now as we were going to the place of prayer, there met us a young woman that had a spirit of divination, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. ¹⁷ She following Paul and us, cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who shew us the way of salvation. ¹⁸ And this she did for many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. ¹⁹ And he came out that instant. And when her masters saw, that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the court to the magistrates. ²⁰ And when they brought them to the governors, they said, These men cause great disturbance in our city, for they are Jews, and teach customs, ²¹ which it is not lawful for us to receive, nor practise, who are Romans. ²² And the populace rose up together against them: and the officers stripped off their clothes, and ordered them to be scourged. ²³ And when they had given them many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely. ²⁴ Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. ²⁵ Now in the middle of the night Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises to God, and the prisoners heard them. ²⁶ And on a sudden there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bonds were loosed. ²⁷ The jailor waking, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword and was going to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners were fled. ²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. ²⁹ Then he called for lights, and sprang in, and being in a tremor fell down before Paul and Silas: ³⁰ and bringing them out, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? ³¹ And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thine house. ³² And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all in his family. ³³ And he took them at that very time of the night, and bathed their stripes: and was baptized, he and all his immediately after. ³⁴ And he brought them into his house, and spread a table for them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household. ³⁵ And when it was the day the governors sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. ³⁶ And the jailor told these words to Paul, saying, the governors have sent orders, that you should be discharged; now therefore depart, and go in peace. ³⁷ But Paul said unto them, They have publicly beaten us, uncondemned, and Romans, and cast us into prison, and do they now turn us out privately? No verily, let them come themselves and fetch us out. ³⁸ And the serjeants reported these words to the governors: and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans. ³⁹ And they came and intreated them, and when they had brought them out, they desired them to leave the city. ⁴⁰ And when they were come out of the prison, they went into the house of Lydia: and seeing the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

¹³ No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or at lest he will be attached to the one, and neglect the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness, and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in this present world;

²³ for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, ²³ gentleness, goodness, fidelity, meekness, temperance: against such things there is no law.

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins;