25 Bible Verses About Moral Absolutes (ESV)

20   Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
  who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
  who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!

13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

2 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.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

19   Bread is made for laughter,
    and wine gladdens life,
    and money answers everything.

13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

13 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.”

23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2:1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

9 Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

15 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.