Bible verses about "ethics" | Living_Oracles

³⁴ A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; that as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know, that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

³⁸ And Peter said to them, Reform, and be each of you immersed in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹ Wherefore, you are inexcusable, O man! whosoever you are, who condemn: for in condemning another, you pass sentence upon yourself; because you, who condemn, practice the same things.

¹² Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him. ¹³ Let no one who is tempted say, Certainly I am tempted by God: for God is incapable of being tempted by evil things, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ But every one is tempted, when he is drawn away, and enticed by his own lust: ¹⁵ then lust having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, being perfected, brings forth death.

¹ What do we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that favor may abound? ² By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, continue to live in it? ³ Do you not know, that as many as have been immersed into Jesus Christ, have been immersed into his death? ⁴ We have been buried, then, together with him, by the immersion into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; so we also shall walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death; we shall then, also, certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not any longer serve sin: ⁷ for he that has died is released from sin. ⁸ Moreover, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. ⁹ Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies not again; death has no longer dominion over him: ¹⁰ for that he has died, he has died for sin once: but that he lives, he lives for God. ¹¹ So reckon yourselves also dead, indeed, to sin; but alive to God, by Jesus Christ. ¹² Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, by obeying it. ¹³ Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness, to sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness, to God. ¹⁴ Besides, sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law, but under favor. ¹⁵ What then do we say? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under favor? ¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants, by obedience; his servants you are whom you thus obey; whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness? ¹⁷ But, thanks to God, that though you were the servants of sin; yet you have heartily obeyed that model of doctrine to which you have been given up. ¹⁸ And being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.) Wherefore, as you have presented your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, to work iniquity; so present now your members, servants to righteousness, to work holiness. ²⁰ For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ And what fruit had you, then, from these things of which you are now ashamed? for the reward of these things is death. ²² But now, being set free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness: and the end, everlasting life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death: but the gracious gift of God is everlasting life, by Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal. ² And though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited. ⁴ Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth: ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished. ⁹ For we know only in part, and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when perfection is come, then what is in part will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.

⁸ Owe no man anything, unless to love one another. For he who loves another, has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For this, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not covet"; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this precept, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁰ Love works no evil to one's neighbor: therefore, love the fulfilling of the law.

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect-completely fitted for every good work.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, by the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.