Bible Verses About Honesty: General references

"'Don't be dishonest when measuring length, weight or capacity.

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

"You are not to have in your pack two sets of weights, one heavy, the other light.

You are not to have in your house two sets of measures, one big, the other small.

You are to have a correct and fair weight, and you are to have a correct and fair measure, so that you will prolong your days in the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

For all who do such things, all who deal dishonestly, are destestable to ADONAI your God.

ADONAI my God, if I have caused this, if there is guilt on my hands,

if I paid back evil to him who was at peace with me, when I even spared those who opposed me without cause;

He whose life is right and whose speech is straight, he who scorns getting rich by extortion, he who shakes his hands free of bribes, stops his ears against talk of bloodshed and shuts his eyes against looking at evil.

Such a person will live on the heights, his refuge a fortress among the cliffs, his food and water in steady supply.

Tax-collectors also came to be immersed; and they asked him, "Rabbi, what should we do?"

"Collect no more than the government assesses," he told them.

God has shown us such mercy that we do not lose courage as we do the work he has given us.

Indeed, we refuse to make use of shameful underhanded methods, employing deception or distorting God’s message. On the contrary, by making very clear what the truth is, we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

Also, make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own business and to earn your living by your own efforts — just as we told you.

Then your daily life will gain the respect of outsiders, and you will not be dependent on anyone.