'Honest' in the Bible

We are all sons of one man; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine of your households,

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.

But bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”

“How painful are honest words!But what does your argument prove?