Bible Verses About Integrity

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established.

Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

A man--he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,

In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept--to deal truly, Righteous is he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.'

And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,