Bible verses about "ethics" | BBE

¹ Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. ³⁵ By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

³⁸ And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.

¹ So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him. ¹³ Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: ¹⁴ But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. ¹⁵ Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

¹ What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace? ² In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer? ³ Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? ⁴ We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. ⁵ For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again; ⁶ Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin. ⁷ Because he who is dead is free from sin. ⁸ But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him; ⁹ Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him. ¹⁰ For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God. ¹¹ Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; ¹³ And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so. ¹⁶ Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness. ¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; ¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. ²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. ²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. ²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

²¹ For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

¹ If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. ² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me. ⁴ Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; ⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; ⁶ It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; ⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. ⁸ Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end. ⁹ For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: ¹⁰ But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary. ¹¹ When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. ¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me. ¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

⁸ Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law. ⁹ And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. ¹⁰ Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: ¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.