Bible Verses about “right and wrong”
The Bible contains 26 verses about right and wrong across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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 in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.”
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”
“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”
“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
“For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."”
“Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.”
“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.”
“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”
“For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,”
“This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.”
“For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.”
“He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.”
“But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."”
“All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."”
“There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”
“For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.”
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
“For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.”
“For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.”
“But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.”
“I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.”
“For I delight in God's law after the inward man,”
“But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.”
“So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.”