Quotes About Morality

Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

This is the wicked manís portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

If my heart has been enticed by my neighborís wife, or I have lurked at his door,

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

If I have rejoiced in my enemyís ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.