Quotes about Morality
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
— Hosea 12:7
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
— Joel 3:3
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
— Amos 3:10
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
— Amos 5:7
Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
— Amos 5:14
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
— Amos 8:5
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
— Amos 8:6
You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
— Obadiah 1:13
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
— Micah 3:2
Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
— Micah 3:11
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
— Habakkuk 1:3
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
— Habakkuk 1:4