28 Bible Verses About Ethical Decision Making

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

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

And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;