Quotes about Ethics
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
— Isaiah 5:20
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
— Isaiah 5:23
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
— Isaiah 10:1
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
— Isaiah 10:2
But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.
— Isaiah 32:8
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
— Isaiah 33:15
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
— Isaiah 59:14
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
— Jeremiah 7:5
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
— Jeremiah 7:31
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
— Jeremiah 22:13
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
— Jeremiah 22:17
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
— Jeremiah 34:11