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Bible Verses About Honesty

16 verses · 1 aspect

Key Bible Verses

  1. Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

  2. Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  3. Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

  4. Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.

  5. Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

  6. For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

  7. Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

  8. O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:

  9. He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

  10. He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

  11. And the publicans also came to be baptized and said to him: Master, what shall we do?

  12. But he said to them: Do nothing more than that which is appointed you.

  13. Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not.

  14. But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

  15. And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's.

  16. And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.