Quotes About Morality

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your sonís wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your brotherís wife; that would shame your brother.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

You must not take your wifeís sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

You must not lie carnally with your neighborís wife and thus defile yourself with her.

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

“Tell the Israelites, ëAny Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.