Bible Verses About Moral Guidance

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

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

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

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.

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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

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

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.