Quotes about Ethics
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
- Romans 7:21
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Romans 8:13
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
- Romans 12:17
Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
- Romans 13:7
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
- 1 Corinthians 5:9
I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
- 1 Corinthians 5:10
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
- 1 Corinthians 6:7
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
- 1 Corinthians 6:8
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- 1 Corinthians 10:25
But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—
- 1 Corinthians 10:28
the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
- 1 Corinthians 10:29
For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.
- 2 Corinthians 8:21