Quotes About Ethics

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís wife; it would dishonor your father.

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your fatherís daughter or your motherís daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

You must not have sexual relations with your sonís daughter or your daughterís daughter, for that would shame your family.

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your fatherís wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís sister; she is your fatherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with your motherís sister, for she is your motherís close relative.

You must not dishonor your fatherís brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your sonís wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your brotherís wife; that would shame your brother.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

You must not take your wifeís sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.