Bible Verses about “right and wrong”

“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“¶ Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

“¶ ‹Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.›”

“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

“For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.”

“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”

“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”

“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”

“‹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.›”

“‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›”

“And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›”

“‹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.›”

“‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›”

“¶ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.”

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.”

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”

“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”

“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”

“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.”

“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”

“If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.”

“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”