Risk Decision Making & Ethics Verses
(This page will continually be added to as I search the Scriptures and my thinking develops).
Joshua 5:13-15 Are you on our side or that of our enemies? “Neither! I’m the commander of the Lord’s heavenly force. Now I have arrived.” Then Joshua fell flat on his face and worshipped.
Psalm 11:5 The Lord examines the righteous, but he hates the wicked and those who love violence.
Psalm 28:4-5 Requite them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices; requite them according to the deeds of their hands. Repay them their recompense, because they do not regard the works of the Lord nor the deeds of His hands.
Psalm 101:2 I will give heed to the blameless way.
Psalm 112:4-6 Light arises in the darkness for the upright. He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous. Those who lend generously are good people - as are those who conduct their affairs with justice. Yes, these sorts of people who will never be shaken.
Psalm 118: 8-9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
Proverbs 3:31 Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways.
Proverbs 21:13 He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be answered.
Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
Proverbs 22:13 The sluggard says, “there is a lion in the street outside, I will be killed in the streets.”
Proverbs 24:17-20 When your enemy falls, don’t rejoice. When they stumble, don’t let your heart be glad, or the Lord will see it and be displeased and he will turn his anger to them. Don’t be fighting mad at evil people, don’t be envious of the wicked. Indeed, there is no future for the evil, the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Proverbs 24:25 Those who rebuke the wicked will be a delight and a good blessing will come upon them.
Proverbs 25:21-22 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. For you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Proverbs 28:4-5 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive with them. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all things.
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor, the wicked does not understand such concern.
Isaiah 5:20 Doom to those who call evil good and good evil; who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who make bitterness sweet and sweetness bitter.
Luke 9:50 But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”
Matthew 12:30/Luke 11:23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Mark 9:39-41 Do not stop him, for no one who does a might work in my name will speak evil of me. For the one who is not against us is for us. Whoever gives a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
I Timothy 3:3 Not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.
Titus 3:2 Slander no one, avoid fighting and be kind, always showing gentleness to all people.
I Peter 3:8-9 To sum it up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit, not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead, for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit the blessing.
Hebrews 5:14 Solid food is for the mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between good and evil.
