Quotes about Ethics
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Joel 3:3
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
- Amos 3:10
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- Amos 5:7
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:11
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Amos 8:4
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- Amos 8:5
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- Amos 8:6
You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
- Obadiah 1:13
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Micah 3:11
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- Habakkuk 2:12
You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’
- Matthew 5:21