Quotes about Morality
But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
- Ezekiel 33:19
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
- Ezekiel 33:20
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:10
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
- Hosea 4:18
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Hosea 12:7
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
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
- Amos 5:14
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