Quotes About Morality

And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Havenít you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didnít you go home?”

Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor manís lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”

“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him.í But she had hidden her son.”

And Jezebelís body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.í”

When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.

Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

ëCan a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?