Quotes about Morality

Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’

So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

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

Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

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?

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,