HONESTY

Passages on this topic · 44

• Genesis 43:12

  and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

• Leviticus 19:35

  “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 16:20

  You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 25:13

  You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

• Deuteronomy 25:14

  You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

• Deuteronomy 25:15

  You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• Deuteronomy 25:16

  For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• 2 Kings 12:15

  Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

• 2 Kings 22:4

  “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into Yahweh’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

• 2 Kings 22:5

  Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the damage to the house,

• 2 Kings 22:6

  to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

• 2 Kings 22:7

  However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

• Nehemiah 13:13

  I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

• Job 27:6

  I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

• Psalms 7:3

  Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

• Psalms 7:4

  if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

• Psalms 15:5

  he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Proverbs 4:25

  Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

• Proverbs 11:1

  A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

• Proverbs 12:22

  Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

• Proverbs 16:11

  Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

• Proverbs 20:10

  Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 20:23

  Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —

• Isaiah 33:16

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Ezekiel 45:10

  You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Mark 10:19

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

• Luke 3:12

  Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

• Luke 3:13

  He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

• Luke 6:31

  “As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

• Acts 24:16

  Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

• 2 Corinthians 4:1

  Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

• 2 Corinthians 7:2

  Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

• 2 Corinthians 8:21

  Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

• Philippians 4:8

  Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

• Colossians 3:22

  Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:11

  and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:12

  that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

• Hebrews 13:18

  Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

• 1 Peter 2:12

  having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.