doing the right thing
What does the Bible say about doing the right thing? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
21Do not allow evil to prevail, instead prevail over evil by means of goodness.
17Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.
3To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.
17Let everything whatsoever that you do, whether in word or in deed, be done all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
10Blessed are those who endure persecution for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11Blessed are you when they have slandered you, and persecuted you, and spoken all kinds of evil against you, falsely, for my sake: 12be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
15For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.
7Do not choose to wander astray. God is not to be ridiculed. 8For whatever a man will have sown, that also shall he reap. For whoever sows in his flesh, from the flesh he shall also reap corruption. But whoever sows in the Spirit, from the Spirit he shall reap eternal life. 9And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail. 10Therefore, while we have time, we should do good works toward everyone, and most of all toward those who are of the household of the faith. 11Consider what kind of letters I have written to you with my own hand. 12For as many of you as they desire to please in the flesh, they compel to be circumcised, but only so that they might not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.
8Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through. 9Open your mouth, declare what is just, and do justice to the indigent and the poor.
7But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
25And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
6For he will render to each one according to his works: 7To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life. 8But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.
13No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, 23meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.