Quotes About Morality

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

But if you have gone astray while under your husbandís authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husbandí—

But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighborís wife. You shall not covet your neighborís house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.