Bible Verses About Moral Standards

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.

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,

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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

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.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

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

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

Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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.

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

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.

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

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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

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

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

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

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

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.