Quotes About Morality

If I say to the wicked, ëO wicked man, you will surely die,í but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ëThe righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.í

Yet your people say, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í But it is their way that is not just.

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighborís wife. Should you then possess the land?í

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morningís light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.