Quotes about Ethics

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!”

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.