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Bible Verses About Ethics
Find Bible verses about ethics — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about ethics?
The Bible addresses ethics with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Luke 6:31
“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”
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Matthew 7:12
“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”
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Luke 6:9
“Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"”
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Proverbs 20:14
“"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.”
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Genesis 39:9
“He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"”
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Proverbs 11:1
“A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.”
Psalms 15:5
“he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.”
Proverbs 20:23
“Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.”
Zechariah 8:16
“These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,”
Colossians 3:9
“Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,”
Deuteronomy 20:10
“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.”
Colossians 3:8
“but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.”
Deuteronomy 25:4
“You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.”
2 Corinthians 4:2
“But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscie...”
Deuteronomy 25:13
“You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.”
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