Quotes About Conduct

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.

For it is Godís will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in Godís household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,