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James 4:17 ESV / 1,638 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 1,065 helpful votes
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 1,036 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 896 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 761 helpful votes
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Proverbs 19:1 ESV / 744 helpful votes
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 677 helpful votes
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 633 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 531 helpful votes
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 528 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 510 helpful votes
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 448 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Luke 16:10-12 ESV / 423 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 423 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
James 1:26 ESV / 399 helpful votes
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
Colossians 3:9 ESV / 368 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Luke 6:32-42 ESV / 350 helpful votes
“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. …
Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 271 helpful votes
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Exodus 20:14 ESV / 258 helpful votes
“You shall not commit adultery.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 241 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 240 helpful votes
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 233 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 213 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 200 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 184 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 181 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 179 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 172 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 24:29 ESV / 171 helpful votes
Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 169 helpful votes
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 163 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 155 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 147 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 145 helpful votes
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 139 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Amos 8:5 ESV / 134 helpful votes
Saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 131 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Deuteronomy 25:13-16 ESV / 129 helpful votes
“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the Lord your God.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Romans 2:21-24 ESV / 127 helpful votes
You then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 125 helpful votes
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 117 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 111 helpful votes
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Luke 8:17 ESV / 106 helpful votes
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
Exodus 20:15 ESV / 106 helpful votes
“You shall not steal.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 102 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 99 helpful votes
What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
1 Peter 3:7-12 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. …
Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Mark 10:19 ESV / 95 helpful votes
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 91 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 90 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 90 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 89 helpful votes
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 85 helpful votes
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” …
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 85 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 83 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Ephesians 5:1-7 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …
Mark 10:11-12 ESV / 81 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Leviticus 19:35-36 ESV / 81 helpful votes
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Galatians 5:16-26 ESV / 78 helpful votes
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, …
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 75 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
James 5:4 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 ESV / 73 helpful votes
That no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Leviticus 19:35 ESV / 71 helpful votes
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Mark 7:20-22 ESV / 68 helpful votes
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
Hosea 12:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 66 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
Romans 14:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Romans 12:17 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Matthew 19:9 ESV / 64 helpful votes
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 64 helpful votes
The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 64 helpful votes
The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
Deuteronomy 5:19 ESV / 63 helpful votes
“‘And you shall not steal.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Proverbs 28:24 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.
Exodus 18:21 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 57 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1 John 2:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Proverbs 20:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes
The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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