Quotes About Ethics

If you come across a birdís nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

A man is not to marry his fatherís wife, so that he will not dishonor his fatherís marriage bed.

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

When you enter your neighborís vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

When you enter your neighborís grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighborís grain.

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking oneís livelihood as security.

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

ëCursed is he who moves his neighborís boundary stone.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

ëCursed is he who lies with any animal.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

ëCursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.