Thematic Bible: Truthfulness
Thematic Bible
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So stand firm and hold your ground, having tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness (an upright heart),
Verse Concepts
Therefore, rejecting all falsehood [whether lying, defrauding, telling half-truths, spreading rumors, any such as these], speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one another [and we are all parts of the body of Christ].
Verse Concepts
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth with one another; judge with truth and pronounce the judgment that brings peace in [the courts at] your gates.
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“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
Nor speak lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they will eat and lie down
With no one to make them tremble and feel afraid.”
Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is [credited] only for a moment.
True instruction was in Levi’s mouth and injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from wickedness.
Verse Concepts
If I wish to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be speaking the truth. But I abstain [from it], so that no one will credit me with more than [is justified by what] he sees in me or hears from me.
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Related Topics
- Appreciation
- Armor Protection
- Armor of God
- Armour
- Avoiding Deceit
- Belts
- Body Of Christ, The Church
- Breastplates
- Business At The Gateway
- Causing People To Turn
- Christ's Limbs
- Church, Unity Of
- Clothed With Good Things
- Deceit, Practice Of
- Deception, Christians Must Not Practice
- Doctrine, Communicated
- Doing God's Works
- Evil Speaking
- Falsehood
- Folly, Examples Of
- Foolish People
- Freed From Fear
- God's Truth
- Judging Rightly
- Judgments
- Justice, In Believers' Lives
- Lawsuits
- Lies
- Lips
- Lying
- Lying And Deceit
- Lying Down To Rest
- Not Lying
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Overestimation
- Paul's Boasting
- Performing The Truth
- Priests, Function In Ot Times
- Resolving Conflict
- Righteousness imputed