Quotes about Ethics
Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt.
- Proverbs 30:10
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- Proverbs 30:20
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16
Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Isaiah 1:23
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 3:15
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
- Isaiah 5:20
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
- Isaiah 5:23
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
- Isaiah 10:1
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Isaiah 10:2
But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.
- Isaiah 32:8
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
- Isaiah 33:15