Quotes About Morality

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,