52 Bible Verses about Honesty
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He breathing out faithfulness will announce justice: and a witness of falsehoods, deceit
And now, Lord Jehovah, thou that God, and thy words shall be true, and thou wilt speak to thy servant this goodness.
The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.
The works of his hands are truth and judgment; faithful are all his charges;
I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.
And Jehovah the God of truth; he the living God, and king eternal: from his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not prevail over his anger.
Then cried Jesus in the temple, teaching, and saying, And ye know me, and ye know whence I am: and I have not come of myself, but he having sent me is true, whom ye know not.
It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.
For they themselves proclaim of us what entrance we have to you, and how ye turned to God from images to serve the living and true God;
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write; Thus says the holy, the true, he having the key of David, he opening, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens;
And I saw as a sea made of glass mingled with fire: and they conquering from the wild beast, and from his image, and from his stamp, and from the number of his name, standing upon the sea made of glass, having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of the holy.
And he says to me, Write, Happy they called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words of God.
Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain? He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart.
But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.
And thou shalt look out from all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, men hating gain; and set thou over them chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of ten.
Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small. There shall not be to thee in thy house an ephah and an ephah, great and small A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and justread more.
For an abomination are all doing these things, all doing evil.
And thou, if thou shalt go before me as David thy father went with integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that I commanded thee, my law and my judgment thou shalt watch: And I raised up the throne of thv kingdom over Israel forever, as spake to David thy father, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man from the throne of Israel.
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates. And ye shall not purpose evil, a man to his neighbor, in your heart; and ye shall not love the oath of falsehood: for all these which I hated, says Jehovah.
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such worshipping him. God a Spirit: and they worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;
Therefore let us keep the festival, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of vice and wickedness; but with the unleavened of frankincense and truth.
And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ:
Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;
For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.
Concerning all things hold thyself a type of good works: in doctrine, integrity, gravity, incorruptibility, The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.
Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:
And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men.
And they having come, say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and thou carest not for any one: for thou lookest not to the face of men, but in truth thou teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or no?
And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me.
And take of twice the silver in your hands; and the silver turned back in the mouth of your sacks, ye shall turn back in your hand; perhaps it was an error.
Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you. And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand. And he will say to them, Jehovah the witness against you, and his Messiah the witness this day that ye found nothing in my hand. And he will say, A witness.
And the woman will say to Elijah, Now this I know that thou a man of God, and the word of Jehovah in thy mouth, truth.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
Then the presidents and satraps were seeking to find a pretext against Daniel from the part of the kingdom; and they will not be able to find any pretext and corruption, because that he was faithful, and any error and corruption was not found upon him.
And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.
But knowing, ye shall know that if ye put me to death, that ye give innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city, and to her inhabitants: for in truth Jehovah sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.
Also punishing to the just one is not good, to strike nobles for uprightness.
Men of bloods will hate the upright one: and the upright will seek his soul.
And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in. And truth shall be lacking; and he departing from evil being plundered: and Jehovah will see, and it will be evil in his eyes, for no judgment
And because I say the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me.
Jesus answered him, If I spake badly, testify of evil: and if well, why strikest thou me?
Have I then been your enemy, speaking truth to you
From Thematic Bible
Honesty » Integrity » Examples of
And it will be kindled to Moses greatly, and he will say to Jehovah, Thou wilt not turn to their gift: not one ass did I take from them, and I did not evil to one of them.
And they will not reckon with the men which they will give the silver into their hand to give to those doing the work, for they do in faith.
And they will say, Thou didst not oppress us, and thou didst not vex us, and thou didst not take any thing from man's hand.
And the man will say to Joab, And not I weighing upon my hand a thousand of silver, I will not stretch forth my hand against the king's son. for in our ears, the king commanded thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Watch for me over the boy, over Absalom.
And the man of God will say to the king, If thou wilt give to me half thy house I will not go with thee, and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water in this place:
Honesty » In business encouraged
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just
Owe ye nothing to none, except to love one another: for he loving another has completed the law.
Honesty » Being honest
As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.
Honesty » Instances of » The overseers of the temple repairs
And they will not reckon with the men which they will give the silver into their hand to give to those doing the work, for they do in faith.
Go up to Hilkiah the great priest, and he shall complete the silver being brought to the house of Jehovah, which the watchers of the threshold gathered from the people. And they shall give it into the hand of those appointed in the house of Jehovah: and they shall give it to those doing the work which is in the house of Jehovah to strengthen the breach of the house. To the artificers, and to the builders and the wall builders, and to buy woods and stones hewn to strengthen the house. read more.
But the silver given into their hand will not be reckoned with them, for they do in faith.
Honesty » Instances of » Jacob, returning money which had been placed in the sacks
And take of twice the silver in your hands; and the silver turned back in the mouth of your sacks, ye shall turn back in your hand; perhaps it was an error.
Honesty » Instances of » Treasurers of the temple
And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the Levites: and upon their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for they were reckoned faithful: and upon them to divide out to their brethren.
Virtues » Honesty » Integrity » General references to
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
And I, in mine integrity thou didst support me, and thou wilt set me before thy face forever.