Bible verses about "virtue" | BBE

¹ The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. ² To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: ³ To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: ⁴ To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: ⁵ The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided: ⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings. ⁷ The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching. ⁸ My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: ⁹ For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. ¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; ¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; ¹³ Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; ¹⁴ Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: ¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: ¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. ¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: ¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. ²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; ²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: ²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? ²³ Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. ²⁴ Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; ²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: ²⁶ So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; ²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. ²⁸ Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: ²⁹ For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: ³⁰ They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them. ³¹ So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full. ³² For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction. ³³ But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

¹⁵ And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again. ¹⁶ But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain. ¹⁷ And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

³⁶ Master, which is the chief rule in the law? ³⁷ And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the first and greatest rule. ³⁹ And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

¹⁷ So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new. ¹⁸ But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; ¹⁹ That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. ²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. ²¹ For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose. ² For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation:

³⁰ For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

²² Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

¹ Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. ² For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.

¹³ Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

¹¹ The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure. ¹² She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. ¹³ She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands. ¹⁴ She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away. ¹⁵ She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls. ¹⁶ After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work. ¹⁷ She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong. ¹⁸ She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night. ¹⁹ She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel. ²⁰ Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.

⁹ He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

² With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, ⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, ⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. ⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,