Quotes About Behavior

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

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

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

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

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

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.

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.