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Bible Verses About Moral Duty

This collection includes 50 passages about Moral Duty. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

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This is the first and great commandment.

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But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

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And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

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Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

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Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

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Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

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He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

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For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

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And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

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Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

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Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

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Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

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Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

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Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

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On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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