Quotes about Morality
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
— Jeremiah 22:17
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
— Jeremiah 31:30
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
— Jeremiah 34:11
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
— Jeremiah 34:16
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
— Ezekiel 3:18
But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
— Ezekiel 3:19
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
— Ezekiel 14:20
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
— Ezekiel 18:5
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
— Ezekiel 18:6
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
— Ezekiel 18:7
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
— Ezekiel 18:8
Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
— Ezekiel 18:10