Quotes About Morality

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

So is he who sleeps with another manís wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.