Bible verses about "ethics" | Moffatt

³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

¹ Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself.

¹² Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him. ¹³ Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire; ¹⁵ then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

¹ Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'? ² Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin? ³ Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death! ⁴ Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life. ⁵ For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his, ⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin ⁷ (for once dead, a man is absolved from the claims of sin). ⁸ We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him; ⁹ for we know that Christ never dies after his resurrection from the dead — death has no more hold over him; ¹⁰ the death he died was for sin, once for all, but the life he lives is for God. ¹¹ So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions; ¹³ you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness. ¹⁴ Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law. ¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith; ¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration. ²⁰ When you served sin, you were free of righteousness. ²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death; ²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal. ²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ Thus, I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal; ² I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing; ³ I may distribute all I possess in charity, I may give up my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I make nothing of it. ⁴ Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, ⁵ is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; ⁶ love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, ⁷ always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient. ⁸ Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded. ⁹ For we only know bit by bit, and we only prophesy bit by bit; ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways. ¹² At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood. ¹³ Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.

⁸ Be in debt to no man — apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law. ⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself. ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline, ¹⁷ to make the man of God proficient and equip him for good work of every kind.

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.