Ethics quotes, parables &
arguments

'be fruitful and increase in number'

GOLDEN RULE: 'treat others as you would like to be treated'

the parable of the good samaritan

'do not commit adultery'

'do not commit murder'

'blessed are the peacemakers for they are children of God' (Matthew 5:9)

'clothe yourself with compassion'

'your only obligation is to love one another'

'love thy neighbour'

'before I formed you in the womb I knew you'

'do not commit idolatry'

'everything is permissible; but not everything is beneficial'

'live by the sword, die by the sword'

'God mad man in his own image'

sanctity of life 'all human life is sacred'

quality of life

Parable of the sheep and goats "I was hungry and you fed me"

'fill the Earth and subdue it'

'Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground'

'your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit'

‘there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female for you are all one in Christ'

'Any one who marries his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.'

‘God closed her womb and Hannah had none'

'Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not and you will not be condemned; forgive and you will be forgiven'

“ God bless those who come to the aid of the poor and rebuke those who turn away from them…love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate use of riches of their selfish use.”

'a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh'

'Don't team up with those who are unbelievers'

'marriage is a gift of God in creation though which husband and wife may know the grace of God'

'it is given as the foundation of the family life in which children are (born and) nurtured and in which each member of the family, in good times and in bad, may find strength companionship and comfort, and grow to maturity in love.'

'in sickness and in health'

'until death do us part'

'the gift of marriage brings husband and wife together in the delight and tenderness of sexual commitment to the end of their lives'

doctrine of double effect

story: God created Adam and decided to make the first woman as a companion- Eve
Genesis 1 ' God made man and woman as partners for one another so that they wouldn't be lonely'

slippery slope

'an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind'

"what god has joined together, let no man separate"

'turn the other cheek'

'honour your father and mother'

'submit to your husband as you do to the lord'

'the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away'

euthanasia-'playing God'

'you knit me together in my mother's womb'

'[artificial insemination is] gravely immoral'

'Don't be a fool and die before your time'

'there is a time to kill and a time to heal'

'do not lie with a man if you lie with a woman'

'What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy' (Micah 6:8)

'speak up for those who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and the destitute!' (proverbs 31: 8-9 The Message (MSG) Bible)

'dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth' (1 John 3:18)

'look after orphans and widows in their distress' (James 1:27)

'faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead' (James 2:17)

'do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it'

'For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsting and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' (Matthew 25:35-36)

Church of England on saviour siblings, 'There are compassionate grounds for allowing saviour siblings'

Leviticus 18:22, 'no man is to have sexual relationships with another man; God hates that.'

Pope, 'Only natural forms of birth control do not offend the moral order established by God'

'do not get drunk on wine... instead be filled with the Spirit'

Last supper, 'do this in memory of me'

Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding-alcohol good

' every man should have his own wife and every woman should have her own husband'

'rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly'

'but if anyone doesn't provide for his relatives he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever'

'love your enemies; do good to those who hate you.'

'when you are at war in your land, defend yourselves against an enemy who has attacked you.'