Quotes about Morality
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
— Jeremiah 6:13
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
— Jeremiah 6:15
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
— Jeremiah 7:5
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
— Jeremiah 7:6
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
— Jeremiah 7:9
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
“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
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
— Jeremiah 31:30
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
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
— Jeremiah 34:16
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
— Ezekiel 3:18
But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
— Ezekiel 3:19