What Does the Bible Say About Chivalry?

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Acts 20:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

1 John 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 8:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

James 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

1 Corinthians 10:1-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. ...

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Acts 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. ...

1 John 5:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

1 Peter 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

Romans 1:23-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ...

Acts 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

Luke 1:51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

Mark 7:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 16:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.

Leviticus 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.

Exodus 28:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

Exodus 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Titus 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Romans 1:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

57 Bible Verses about Chivalry

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 12:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 John 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Acts 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:23-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:51 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 16:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 28:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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