Quotes About Morality

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ëI have done nothing wrong.í

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

A wise manís heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—