Bible Verses About Integrity: General references

You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright.

Justice, only justice, you must pursue; so that you will live and inherit the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

my lips will not speak unrighteousness, or my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me to say you are right; I will keep my integrity till the day I die.

I hold to my righteousness; I won't let it go; my heart will not shame me as long as I live.

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust after any girl.

"What share does God give from above? What is the heritage from Shaddai on high?

Isn't it calamity to the unrighteous? disaster to those who do evil?

Doesn't he see my ways and count all my steps?

"If I have gone along with falsehood, if my feet have hurried to deceit;

then let me be weighed on an honest scale, so that God will know my integrity.

"If my steps have wandered from the way, if my heart has followed my eyes, if the least dirt has stuck to my hands;

then let me sow and someone else eat, let what grows from my fields be uprooted.

"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another man, and let others kneel on her.

For that would be a heinous act, a criminal offense,

a fire that would burn to the depths of Abaddon, uprooting all I produce.

"If I ever rejected my slave or slave-girl's cause, when they brought legal action against me;

then what would I do if God stood up? Were he to intervene, what answer could I give?

Didn't he who made me in the womb make them too? Didn't the same one shape us both before our birth?

"If I held back anything needed by the poor or made a widow's eye grow dim [with tears],

or ate my portion of food by myself, without letting the orphan eat any of it

No! From my youth he grew up with me as if with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb!

or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,

who didn't bless me from his heart for being warmed with the fleece from my sheep,